The young children critically burnt in a Gisborne car fire are making a slow recovery in an Auckland…

1. Hero in the car-fire kids nightmare

Two brothers from the rock-reggae band Kora have been in trouble with police this week.

Veteran activist John Minto is asking his political party to approve a run for mayor of Auckland. The trade unionist and…

1. video Q and A with Mayor Len Brown (7:47)

Never mind Hottest Home Baker , teenager Lynlee Stout is NZ's most unlikely home baker. The high school student cannot…

1. Taste test: Not too sweet, just nice

War hero Willie Apiata has got his call-up to battle this Anzac Day. Apiata, VC, will share a last…

1. Anzac exemption after Aerosmith concert

One of New Zealand's biggest banks has scrambled to assess its security systems after handing out hundreds of dollars in…

A top police officer is calling for unlicensed drivers to be banned from buying vehicles after a horror motorcycle death…

A top local actor who starred in James Bond and Lord of the Rings movies is facing a drink-driving charge. Lawrence…

The post-match celebrations were long and loud, but the New Zealand Breakers are promising there's some gas in the tank…

1. video Victory: Breakers win third title (1:32)

Police have seized $150 million worth of houses, cars and cash from the Mr Bigs of the New Zealand crime…

1. Peter Williams: Courts must show compassion (21 comments)

A heart attack victim taken to hospital in an ambulance driven by a taxi driver has been billed by St John Ambulance for…

1. Taxi driver takes ambulance wheel

Biosecurity officers have returned to the Auckland Botanic Gardens to investigate alleged illegal plant imports.

1. No tourists: saving kauri

A veteran conservationist says a lack of funding is jeopardising iconic kauri forests.

1. Coromandel: King of hills

A $6.6 million upgrade of Pukekohe Raceway has failed to meet the international safety standard promised by V8 Supercars'…

1. video Pukekohe: 50 years of motorsport (8:50)

Neighbours who alerted a family to a burning truck in their front yard early yesterday say it was only…

1. Scrub blaze spotted in time

A convicted paedophile has been accused of sexually assaulting two young New Zealand brothers while they were on holiday…

Top sports star and administrator Tony Kemp has resigned from his New Zealand Rugby League job.

1. Iro replaces suspended Kemp as Kiwis' manager

One of Auckland's top police officers is being investigated by fellow police.

Kiwis on their OE are likelier to be young professionals than backpackers dossing down in a bedsit. London correspondent…

1. Study: Kiwi brain-drain slowing down

Arthur Allan Thomas' brother carried out his own forensic tests to discredit the evidence that convicted…

Pet owners are being warned that identity microchips in their precious animals may be faulty after flaws were detected in…

1. Social media tapped for new lost pet service

After nine years of hogging the limelight, Robert Muldoon found himself on the fringe in 1984. Four months earlier, the…

1. Photo recall: Stretch the car to make room for the phone

Paul Little writes: The debate over the Auckland Unitary Plan has coalesced around a simple and simplistic choice.

1. Paul Little: Situations increasingly vacant (14 comments)

A tradesman who was publicly accused of ripping off clients is back, and appears to be up to his old tricks.

1. Check the red flags in stampede for Mighty River shares

Auckland Council and its web of agencies employ 143 communications, public relations and marketing staff…

1. Big squeeze in Auckland schools

It wasn't just Xtra emails being hit by scammers this week.

1. Scam Watch - April 7

As a shell-shocked Auckland grapples with how it will cope with a population growth of one million people, the people of…

1. Sense of community lost as rolls expand

Auckland will be expected to accommodate a million extra residents over the next 30 years, with few plans for new schools…

1. Auckland economy growing, says latest research

Rongomai Primary School was treated to a special breakfast with the Blues. Kids Kai Time provides a breakfast service for…

Nine people have been arrested at a notorious Dunedin student street shindig, but police are pretty…

1. 15 arrests, roof collapse - great keg party (+video)

It takes a lot to get Aucklanders riled, writes Matt McCarten. "When they do, governments fall."

1. video Watch: Auckland Unitary Plan - help shape Auckland (2:25)

1. Dunne to support Govt 'mass arrival' definition

1. Hospital kitchens not closing - Minister

Housing New Zealand has reduced the timeframe for…

1. Strong quake in Japan, no damage reported

A Hawaii fisherman has an unbelievable fishing tale: a close encounter with a 2.7 metre shark that jumped…

1. video Viral Hit: Shark surprises fisherman (0:58)

Every good citizen would agree with the proposition that if people acquire substantial assets by committing crimes such…

An estimated 2000 people marched in downtown Auckland this afternoon in protest at the Government's…

Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

1. Fitness power hour

Scrounging leftovers A reader writes: "My husband was eating at a Chinese food place in the Downtown Shopping Centre in…

1. One for the chicks (29 comments)

Reinstating the "Pig Patrol" may be the only way of fixing discrepancies in prosecution rates between Pakeha and Maori and…

1. Bryce Edwards: Political round-up: NZ's heated race relations (25 comments)