Cancer-stricken widow, 72, fights sale of home she is due to leave this week.

The Government has refused to support a new free advocacy service for the poor.

Government eyes tougher regulations on companies that specialise in private home deals.

Private house buying companies likened to clothing trucks and finance firms.

An ill pensioner is scrambling to save her house after selling it in a private sale.

Students leaders from South Auckland will take part in a new production: Southside Rise.

Milo the missing husky is back home safe and sound, but with many questions unanswered ...

The family of a missing dog fear it may have been stolen from their Mangere home.

Two people have been charged over alleged kickbacks at two Manukau Maori organisations.

Two sentenced for "cruel" abuse of five children, which left them bruised and starved.

The most seriously injured person in a crash on the South Western Motorway is improving.

The Auckland Volcanic Field will "almost certainly" erupt again, and a swarm of earthquakes will be the first signal of a catastrophe, say scientists.

About 50 elderly US tourists had to stay at a marae after their flight was cancelled.

Living the dog's life just got a whole lot cooler with a doggie playground complete with a swing bridge, see-saws and tunnels taking shape at the SPCA.

The Herald this week marks the launch of Super Diverse Woman. Today we talk to Barbara Ala'alatoa.

Emergency services closed off part of a busy road in Mangere, South Auckland, after a gas main was ruptured by a digger.

EXCLUSIVE: Water bills in the country's largest city may have to rise to stop raw sewage flowing into Auckland Harbour almost every time it rains.

An 8-year-old girl has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a car in the South Auckland.

A descendant of early businessman George Court who lived in a historic homestead in Mangere Bridge is "horrified" the property could be demolished.

Forget Beefsteaks and cherry tomatoes, little Otto Madsen has a tomato to trump the rest.

A fisherman plucked from Manukau Harbour after spending five hours in choppy waters has been discharged from hospital.

The road is closed after a motorcycle collided with a car and a power pole in South Auckland this afternoon.

Crash brings down powerlines.

Valerie Adams visited her mother's grave today, after news she has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Victim's family happy police officer who pushed teen off bike will escape charges.

Jade Howard Moore, who helped a diabetic mum who collapsed earlier this year, is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer.

A health expert says the woman who left a dead newborn baby in a park would be showing signs something was wrong.

A west Auckland secondary school has hit a wall in its attempt to expand into a full secondary and bilingual facility.

Guy Fawkes weekend has officially started for South Auckland fire crews.

A grassroots community effort to clean up a polluted South Auckland waterway has been hailed with a national award naming the Puhinui Stream the country's "most improved river".