Police want to hear from anyone who was in the wider area near St Heliers School between 7.30am and 9am yesterday, and witnessed anything suspicious.

A little girl is back at school after a man tried to grab her outside an Auckland school gate yesterday.

An architect-designed home caught the owner's eye long before she bought, writes Robyn Welsh

A fire that was rapidly spreading down a cliff in swanky Auckland suburb St Heliers has been extinguished.

Today's winner of the Auckland Marathon led from start to finish - despite never having run one before.

Thousands have hit the pavement running as the Auckland Marathon kicked off on the North Shore this morning.

A gas leak in Auckland late this morning is being plugged.

The end is nigh, possibly, of a long-running - and sometimes brutal - legal dispute. Steve Braunias investigates.

Debris littered a suburban St Heliers road this morning after a car crashed into a parked vehicle.

An injured horse on the side of a busy Auckland road had injured its leg after jumping a fence.

He works in a contact centre by day and in a Panmure halal butchery by night - but by 2026, Saeed Ghandhari could be manning the first human colony on Mars.

Police are looking for two men who robbed a bar at St Heliers Bay in Auckland last night.

Plans for a lavish clifftop mansion - the unrealised dream home of former bankrupted Sensation Yachts owner Ivan Erceg - can be revealed for the first time.

Locals near a popular hangout for naked sunlovers are relieved summer is coming to a close.

A $10.8 million clifftop mansion in St Heliers which went for $3.1 million above valuation was NZ's most expensive house sale this year.

Vets are warning dog owners to be vigilant after a spate of dog poisonings, including at least one incident believed to be deliberate.

A large slice of prime beachfront real estate is shaping up as the next battleground for those opposed to multilevel housing.