Three students are completing their final year at the beleaguered Papakura High School.

At the edge of the city and the margins of society a school and its students are battling for a brighter future. This is the story of a year inside their world.

Under The Bridge marks the New Zealand Herald's first foray into long-form documentary making.

Increased police numbers are good, as long as violent and anti-social crimes are targeted, bashing victim says.

A double-booking at an Auckland cemetery has left two grieving families devastated.

A good Samaritan who helped an elderly lady at an Auckland supermarket is "overwhelmed" after being flooded with proposals from gushing single women.

A Domino's manager has apologised for "really awful service" after a family accidentally ate pizzas with meat on them, despite being religiously vegetarian.

Ambulance staff left quickly to take a patient to hospital, not realising a medical supplies bag was missing.

Police have arrested two people who tried to flee after they crashed their car into a house early this morning.

A car has crashed into a fish and chip shop in Papakura.

A van had flipped on its roof, a police spokeswoman said.

A woman who vandalised graves at an Auckland cemetery earlier this year - mostly of children and stillborn babies - has been found

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

His wife's scream was all that alerted an Auckland driver to an oncoming train.

#WillSheVote? Hinekia Fitzgerald has made her decision.

Landowners on three Auckland sites who were told to hurry up or lose fast-track building rights 16 months ago have sat by while land values have skyrocketed.

Nearly 1000 mourners gather to farewell teen who died last month in Whitianga.

#WillSheVote? Lifelong Local Body election non-voter Hinekia Fitzgerald hears from candidates on her journey to the polls.

Police are warning motorists to avoid roads in South Auckland following a significant oil spill.

Papakura residents were awoken about 5am today to the sounds of explosions from a car ablaze in a Red Hill parking lot.

Housing NZ has bought a motel to help meet the area's housing shortage - but the existing residents will have to move out to make room for the homeless.

Sprucing up tired town centres, public safety and managing ongoing residential growth are the biggest concerns for Manurewa-Papakura ward voters.

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

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

The man who at the centre of an armed offenders call out in Papakura today has died.

A truck full of milk is on fire on a dock in the Auckland suburb of Papakura.

A woman with stab wounds ran onto the road carrying a baby and screaming for help this afternoon, a witness has described.

One of the more basic properties in Papakura is probably now also one of the cheapest.

A prefab-style house in Papakura is for sale with a price tag of more than half a million dollars.

Police say the death of a woman found in a South Auckland park this morning is not thought to be suspicious.