Homes are to be built on the North Shore as the Government looks to rapidly ramp up housing supply in Auckland.

School board apologises for using fake cocaine, in the form of icing sugar, as a prop for its fundraising ball.

Developers who pushed for fast-track development rights in some of Auckland's special housing areas are now walking away from the process.

Bad weather cancels ferries.

COMMENT: SkyPath looks like something from a city of the future conceived in the 1950s, but fortunately, retro is very on trend.

SkyPath opponents claim safety planning for the cycleway puts people at risk.

Police are appealing for help identifying a man that injured an elderly woman as he snatched her handbag at Northcote shops.

Chairman under fire from children’s health campaigner Dr Lance O’Sullivan is not going down without a fight, writing a letter overnight to stamp his authority on the role.

Custodians of bush and recreational areas near Auckland's Northcote Pt fear environmental degradation from a walking and cycling path across the harbour bridge.

"I'd say she'd probably only had maximum probably another minute, minute-and-a-half if she hadn't got out," said an officer who helped woman from car.

Two police officers who dragged a 63-year-old woman from her sinking car at an Auckland wharf believe she was about a minute away from drowning.

Erica Hannam and Richard Tout are restoring their heritage-listed Northcote Pt villa but are concerned about the proposed SkyPath pedestrian and cycle way.

Lucy Knight, the good Samaritan who was left fighting for her life after thwarting a bag-snatch attempt, says she hopes her attacker will have time to think.

A man has been found dead in a van on Auckland's North Shore but police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.

Sentencing has been put off for the teenager who seriously injured good Samaritan Lucy Knight.

Good Samaritan bag snatch heroine Lucy Knight is moving home tomorrow with rugby headgear to protect her fractured skull after a month of rehab.

A teenager has pleaded guilty to attacking "Good Samaritan" Lucy Knight as she intervened during a bag snatch outside a supermarket.

Husband of mother left with severe head injuries after she tried to stop a bag snatch says: "She is very sore and extremely tired."

Hero mum-of-six Lucy Knight has asked about the welfare of her youngest children – her first brief sentences since undergoing brain surgery after a shocking daylight attack last week.

A team of firefighters is keeping watch over an Auckland school which was badly damaged in a fire last night.

A building has caught fire at Northcote College, on Auckland’s North Shore.

The husband of Lucy Knight, the woman seriously hurt after intervening in an attempted bag snatch, says the response from the public has been mind-boggling.

Northcote Pt was put into lockdown last night as police checked cars and hunted through gardens for a car thief.

An investigation is set to be launched this morning into the cause of a fire in the Auckland suburb of Northcote.