Long-distance coach passengers are being hooked into a single ticket with an Auckland Airport bus service to boost its popularity after a sluggish takeoff.

The food matches the marvellous setting at Bracu, says Peter Calder.

Students, office workers and retired people flocked to a South Auckland house to buy cannabis from a mother of five children under seven.

Kerri Jackson takes a walk through Auckland's expansive botanic gardens and discovers more than flora and fauna.

The identity of the man accused of shooting a police officer in Papatoetoe will remain a secret until at least tomorrow.

One fisherman drowned and three others spent hours clinging to their boat after it capsized in the mouth of the Manukau Harbour.

In part five of his series on 2009's big trials, Andrew Koubaridis revisits the night Tony Worrell drove into Katie Powles.

Her eye had to be stitched open, her cheekbone was broken, several of her teeth were crushed and she has no feeling on the left side of her face.

Broadcaster Willie Jackson is making a last-ditch attempt to save a Mangere rest home slated for closure by the Counties Manukau DHB.

Ronan Keating is heading our way next month but for now he's still dealing with the shock death of his Boyzone pal.

Police have released security footage of three masked men who robbed a South Auckland tavern at gunpoint on Tuesday.

The manager of a South Auckland tavern that was robbed of up to $20,000 yesterday says he is pleased his customers escaped unhurt.

A man arrested in connection with the shooting of an Auckland police officer has been given bail.

Injured police officer Jeremy Snow is itching to get out of his hospital bed and back to his police work.

A rest home and hospital for the aged in South Auckland will close next month after it failed to meet standards imposed by health authorities.