The Pakuranga College community is in mourning after the death of one of its senior students in a motorcycle accident.

Pakuranga Plaza will become a new "urban village", with a hotel, community facilities, apartments, offices and more shops in a $500 million upgrade.

An elderly man has been hospitalised after being assaulted in his Pakuranga home in the early hours of this morning.

An elderly man, believed to be around 85, has been hospitalised after being attacked in his Pakuranga home.

A woman was assaulted when two men allegedly armed with a knife and a shotgun entered an Auckland house in the early hours of this morning, and a shot was fired.

Danielle Wright finds a game of snakes and ladders the perfect lure for her family along the Pakuranga Rotary Walk.

A teen murderer's "one-fingered salute" to a press photographer made a lie of his remorse, a High Court judge says.

The steady life in sales and prices started in the central Auckland suburbs over a year ago and has now spread across the new supercity. But as Bruce Morris reports, it's still tough going out in the provinces.

East Tamaki Healthcare director Ranjna Patel has lived in Pakuranga for the past 32 years. She tells Farida Master why Pakuranga is perfect for her family.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Exercise, fresh air and new perspectives await those who venture on to Auckland's off-road cycleways, writes Kirsten Warner.

The family of young mother Jackie Allister is dumbfounded at her murder.

Blood-soaked carpet and household items have been removed from the home of an Auckland couple found dead after the woman's 14-year-old sister called 111.