Rowan Quinn

Four severely overweight patients have been stuck at Middlemore Hospital for months because there is nowhere suitable for them to be discharged to.

Security guards at Middlemore hospital are escorting staff and visitors to their cars more than 4000 times a month as safety fears continue.

National is weighing into Auckland Council politics with the launch of a website asking Aucklanders to rate the council's performance.

Nearly 9000 children and teens needed dental work under general anaesthetic last year for largely preventable conditions.

Auckland Council has declared a climate emergency after a meeting that had young Aucklanders front and centre pushing for the move.

National is not backing a candidate for this year's Auckland mayoral race, leaving some right-leaning voters with a difficult choice.

The organiser of a petition calling for more free dental care says she hopes it will persuade the government to make the next Budget a true wellbeing one.

A woman who performed with the world's greatest ballet dancers before teaching go-go girls to shake and shimmy on New Zealand TV has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Video

A Whangārei toddler with rotten teeth and a painful abscess was sent home to wait it out for five months with painkillers and antibiotics because of a huge waiting list for treatment.

A group of women in their 70s and 80s say they're no biddies as they prepare to give evidence in the Environment Court against an Auckland Council development.

Auckland Council has agreed to fund its share of a billion-dollar budget blow out in the City Rail Link, but has ruled out selling its downtown carparking buildings to do so.

A self-confessed IT geek has set up a kids coding club as part of his mission to give more Pasifika kids the opportunity to get into a career in IT. Video

Homebuyers in an Auckland Special Housing area have been charged extra for features like driveways, pushing the total price well outside the affordable range.

Street parking in Auckland has hit double figures with drivers now being charged up to $10 an hour to park downtown.

Residents on Great Barrier Island are going to the High Court in a bid to stop millions of cubic metres of Auckland waste being dumped off their coast - including from the America's Cup village.

The legal bills are racking up as Auckland Council effectively fights itself in a battle over a central Auckland development.

Auckland primary school children have been verbally abused and almost hit by high speed cyclists on one of the city's most popular cycleways.

Work on hundreds of new Auckland homes is being delayed by a year because Auckland Council is worried about noise from engine testing at the New Zealand Defence Force's air base at Whenuapai.

Selfie-seeking bush walkers are endangering kauri along one of Auckland's most popular walks.

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says his wife, Mary, is asking if he "ever wants to have a life" as he considers running for mayor again.

Auckland has become a lap dog for central government which is imposing unfair taxes and constraints on the city, say John Tamihere and Christine Fletcher as they announce a bid to topple Mayor Phil…

John Tamihere looks set to announce he will run for the Auckland mayoralty.

An Auckland primary school that stopped asking for annual donations is calling on the government to fulfill its promise to financially support such a move.

An Auckland community that has a name - but doesn't officially exist - is trying to get on the map.

Work to flush explosive gases out of the Pike River mine tunnel is set to begin today as the operation to re-enter the mine enters a critical phase.