Attention is turning to Mt Roskill ahead of the December 3 byelection - with Labour facing a fight to hold on to the seat.

An 81-year-old woman with dementia reported missing from Mt Roskill last night has been found.

Iriea Natua drove drunk and over the speed limit - a decision which killed his sister, injured two friends and left him facing a year of home detention.

Green Party co-leader James Shaw has decided to run in Wellington Central again in 2017.

The tihi (summits) of five Auckland mountains will be closed to vehicles from next year, the Tupuna Maunga Authority has announced.

Two schools became an unexpected battleground today in the squabble over who will win over Mt Roskill.

A resident is calling for the state house where a woman died after it suspiciously caught fire to be demolished. Linda Winifred Edwards

National has made extraordinary claims against Labour's Mt Roskill byelection candidate following a heated public debate.

Police have named the woman who died after an Auckland house fire on Tuesday.

On the eve of the annual Labour party conference, Claire Trevett looks at the party's battle plan to to take back Auckland in 2017.

National's Parmjeet Parmar has questioned 'independent' mayor Phil Goff's role in Labour candidate's campaign.

National's Steven Joyce was criticised for 'pork barrel politics' during the Northland by-election. Now he's hitting out at Labour for the same over its $680m Mt Roskill light rail pledge.

COMMENT: If Labour wins the the byelection no one will notice. There will not be a ripple. If they lose, there will be a political tsunami.

Sitting list MP Parmjeet Parmar will contest the Mt Roskill byelection for National, the party has confirmed.

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

The Mt Roskill byelection is likely to be held on December 3, with the National Party happy to wear the underdog tag.

A brazen garden thief is wreaking havoc on backyards in a central Auckland suburb.

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

Two men arrested after alert neighbour sees "dodgy-looking" men high-jumping her neighbour's fence.

Looming lapse of the affordability rule in up to half of special housing areas sparks land-banking accusations.

A bankrupt Mt Roskill man has been accused of concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold bars and cash from authorities.

A man who served 15 years in an Australian prison for beating his pregnant girlfriend to death took just six months to reoffend after being deported to New Zealand.

Desperate bid to find her daughter's gold signet ring attached to "Happy Birthday" balloon.

Woman who helped kill a man after her birthday party has had her murder appeal dismissed.

The Labour Party has selected Michael Wood as its new Mt Roskill candidate to take over from longstanding MP Phil Goff.

Healthy scroggin and fruit pottles are replacing chips as lunch for some Mt Roskill schoolchildren.

A stolen car crammed full with seven young people flipped in a driveway after a high-speed police chase.

Three cars involved in collision which killed one person and injured another.

A student has been rushed to hospital after turning up sick to an Auckland school this morning.

Police have named the man who was found dead in his Mt Roskill flat yesterday morning.