Here are extracts from the five new faces on Auckland Council.

Paramedics and police have been called to a crash in South Auckland tonight.

A 15-year-old Auckland girl has been referred to youth aid following dawn police raids this morning.

Brazen thieves who robbed a couple as they slept began taking photos of themselves flaunting their stolen property just a few hours later.

The man charged after the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler was her father, it can be revealed.

Budgeting agencies are "in shock" after a radical shakeup which has ended state funding for a third of all previously funded budget

A man charged in relation to the fatal shooting of a South Auckland toddler has lost a bid for name suppression.

High school in 2016 has become a playground for the logistical mastermind.

Serial dung-slinger was back in court today - and his defence as to why he threw manure at a judge was unique, to say the least.

Two teens have been charged and two more referred to Youth Aid following a street brawl that spilled into a South Auckland KFC restaurant.

Up to 100 students involved in a brawl that spilled from an Auckland street into a KFC restaurant.

A family living in a South Auckland garage faces eviction in October because the landlord converted it into a flat without a council permit.

New Zealanders will light up the darkness on 17 mountaintops next month as a message of hope for families struggling to cope with suicides by loved ones.

One of the biggest traditional Samoan houses to be built outside of the islands will be officially opened in South Auckland today.

A man has been charged with manslaughter over the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old in her Mangere home.

A former market garden with a 1920s brick and tile home in Mangere sold at auction this week for $4.7 million - almost $3.5m over its council valuation.

Three teens pointed a gun at an Auckland woman after she found them breaking into her home.

Animated webseries Aroha Bridge started life as a weekly comic strip, created by Jessica Hansell, better known as local rapper Coco Solid.

A "high risk" sex offender housed metres from a Auckland school has been moved after a public outcry - near another school.

A 26-year-old man is due to appear in court this afternoon after a two-year-old girl was shot dead.

A Mangere marae has planted 80,000 kumara to try to wean its people off McDonald's and KFC.

A heroic Mangere East woman who saved her three young nieces from a fire yesterday slept in the garage last night, after the blaze gutted their home.

A house in South Auckland has been extensively damaged after an early morning blaze on Christmas Eve.

Police are investigating a suspected air gun incident in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere this morning.

Two masked offenders who stormed a petrol station and fired blank shots into the roof have sparked a police hunt.

Police are on the hunt for two men who held up a Mangere service station last night, armed with a gun.

The police treatment of women and children who were ordered from a Mangere home at gunpoint was in breach of their rights, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found.

Six people involved in the rescue of children from a capsized dinghy that claimed the lives of two people have been recognised for their bravery.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere. Four occupants have been transferred to Middlemore hospital with moderate to serious injuries. An investigation by Serious Crash in underway to find out the cause of the accident.

A car has crashed into Burger King on Bader Drive in the South Auckland suburb of Mangere.