Capital spending on Auckland schools could double from $160m to $300m-$350m a year.

Two young men have been charged with torching several buildings in South Auckland.

A Pukekohe family were holed up in their bathroom after police standoff earlier today.

Two fires were discovered at newly built homes in Pukekohe this morning.

New school will cater for 350 students when it opens in 2021.

The "hot spot" suburbs include a number of up-and-coming neighbourhoods, agency boss says.

Claims of substandard care at rest home are not the first, says daughter of late mum.

The Other Side of Crime is a series on Victim Support. Today - why people volunteer.

On a Saturday night in 2013 Tania Gallagher's world collapsed around her.

The NZ Initiative argues that we have "placed a deceit at the heart" of NCEA.

Married under the rugby posts, they celebrated with a round of sausage rolls and pies.

The man's death had destroyed "a million dreams", a community member said.

Emergency services are at the scene of incident near Puni.

In 1958 he was a boy racer, in 2018 he's aiming to win a fourth New Zealand Grand Prix.

Grass fires in Pukekohe causes train to stop

State Highway 22 has reopened after a crash north of Pukekohe.

Armed man threatened attendant with knife before stealing cash.

With close to three weeks left in the year, 18 cyclists have already killed on our roads.

Eddie Tavinor died when part of a driveshaft hurtled through the windscreen of his ute.

South Island man has serious eye injury after firework was shot directly in his face.

He suffered serious injuries and has been taken to Middlemore Hospital.

A particularly wet winter has left Kiwi potato farmers millions of dollars out of pocket.

A man once jailed for breaking into the home of an elderly woman is wanted for a robbery.

Labour will free up Auckland's urban boundary to "turbocharge" affordable housing.

A plane that crashed in Pukekohe in June was on its maiden flight.

Eventful holiday for Kiwi pair on cruise ship as superstorm approaches.

Labour is poised to ask Aucklanders to help pay for a rapid transit network.

Japanese internees were being taken from Auckland to Australia for a prisoner exchange.

A $207m package for new trains to Pukekohe has been agreed by Auckland councillors today

Jess and Todd Wackrow weren't expecting Willow to arrive until a week later