Prince Harry will leave tomorrow having well and truly won over many Maori, including Dame Tariana Turia.

Prince Harry spoke at Government House Friday evening, after a day of meeting members youth development programme, a hospital, a South Auckland school, and a few All Blacks.

With rates going up again to pay for Mayor Brown's vision Brian Rudman is a little nervous about being stuck with funding the cycling lobby's cross-harbour vision as well.

Hammerheads restaurant is in liquidation after occupying a prime waterfront position for more than 20 years.

A 6-year-old child has been rushed to Starship children’s hospital with serious injuries after a two-car crash on Auckland’s North Shore.

Room escape games are taking the world by storm so Elisabeth Easther took a posse of puzzlers to find out what all the fuss is about. We promise, no spoilers.

A 2-year-old hit by a car after he ran out onto Mt Eden Rd yesterday remains in a critical condition at Starship Hospital this morning.

A grandmother and her 2-year-old grandson have been struck by a car after he ran out on to an Auckland road late this morning.

The compromise between Auckland Council and the Auckland port company will satisfy neither side. Sooner or later, the company has to accept it can have no more of the harbour.

Auckland Transport has been forced into an embarrassing backdown after it erected speed-limit signs without following correct process.

The regrettable demise of bookshops opens way for new retail opportunities.

Airbus forecasts passengers through New Zealand airports will almost double to 45 million passengers annually within the next 20 years amid rapid global growth which the company says should boost tepid demand for its super jumbo.

The owner of Auckland CBD’s last remaining independent book retailer is mourning Whitcoull’s down-sizing.

A teenage girl who did not pay for $770 of hair extensions pulled the same stunt at another business last year.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown used his casting vote to accept a compromise proposal by the city-owned port company to stop extending the shorter of its two wharf extensions.

Ports of Auckland is sitting on land with a commercial value of $2.2 billion, far greater than its $76 million value for port use, says an economist.

A group representing 110 lessees with houses on Cornwall Park Trust Board land through Greenlane and One Tree Hill has rejected a proposal to change their lease terms.

The owner of a busy central Auckland restaurant is unsure when he can reopen after a car smashed through the front window last night.

An application to build the controversial $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf has recommended not giving the public a say.

Inspiration for a new $1 million-plus Wynyard Quarter apartment display suite near Auckland's waterfront came from a Seattle urban regeneration promotion hub.

A car has smashed through a glass window into a busy central Auckland restaurant tonight. Police were called to the scene at 8.50pm, to find the Holden commodore inside Paradise Garden restaurant on Vogel Lane, near the Skytower. A police spokesman said there were about 15 people in the restaurant at the time, but neither customers, nor the car's male driver were injured.

Auckland Transport is accused of softening up rail commuters for slower trips on new electric trains by adding three minutes to its western line timetable.

Port protesters are targeting Mayor Len Brown to stop work on two huge wharf extensions into the Waitemata Harbour.

The Cornwall Park Trust Board has proposed sweeping changes to the leases on 110 Auckland properties it owns, including axing five-yearly mandatory house repainting demands.

A four vehicle crash in Auckland this afternoon has left a man with serious injuries after his car smashed into a pole on Queen St.

New research finds that Auckland's streets were the most notorious, but indoor sex workers were subject to more violence in Christchurch.

The new Fans versus Faves series will see newbie renovators pitted against past contestants and is due to start filming in the coming months.