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.

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.

Danielle Wright finds a busy kids' book club in Mangere Bridge that's about a lot more than reading and writing.