New Zealand’s largest Islamic school moves to protect young from extremism amid concerns over how terror groups are using the internet to recruit members.

Auckland housewives have been targeted by a malicious letter-writer who has posted letters accusing them of having affairs.

Diabetes patient Rosilene Thomas has lost confidence in using a kidney dialysis machine after her home was one of about 300 Mangere properties to lose its water supply.

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year celebrations, Joelle Thomson investigates North Island walks for you to check out on your holidays.

'This little truck takes two carpark spaces 10 hours a week and we disturb nobody.' Fish vendors vow to fight a Council order to move.

Outlying suburbs are the setting for Auckland's next property boom, as first-home buyers squeezed out of rapidly rising areas look to the outskirts of the City of Sails.

Police have arrested two men and are searching for a third after an attempted carjacking in Mangere Bridge this afternoon.

Fire appliances have rushed to a house fire in Mangere.

A principal is flabbergasted at a decision to allow a liquor store to open in a former video parlour directly opposite his school in Mangere.

The country's refugee-processing centre is being overhauled - with the capacity to house a huge and sudden intake if necessary.

With over 10 volcanic craters and cones, Mangere is packed with adventures, writes Diana Clement.

Twenty-two families who have mostly been doubling up with relatives in overcrowded homes finally have room to breathe in a new housing project opened by a Tongan princess in Mangere.

A man is set to appear in court today charged with assaulting police, following an incident where police fired a shot while trying to make an arrest in South Auckland last night.

An Auckland man who beat a dog so badly it lost an eye and several teeth has been sent to prison for six months.

In June last year, Maxwel Johnson beat his one-year-old dog so severely the dog lost an eye, several teeth, and suffered a broken jaw.

Restaurant Brands' newly opened Carl's Jr burger store in Mangere has performed ahead of expectations during its first five days of trading, the company says.

An Auckland freight business has been fined $50,000 after a teenage worker had his skull fractured when a large crate fell on him.

Two waka crews have set off on a massive ocean journey to Easter Island today.

Sophie Bond meets a man involved in preparing a feast for Maori New Year, which is marked by the rise of the star cluster Matariki and the sighting of the new moon.