Police have released a sketch of a man being sought after a woman was brutally attacked in her central Auckland home earlier this month.

A slew of alleged drink drivers appeared in court today, including two business high-flyers.

A prominent commercial real estate financier says land-bankers are ruining Auckland's central business district by leaving many sites vacant for decades.

Developers of a controversial multi-million waterfront village have been told "build around me" by a pensioner who owns the lease to land in the middle of the site.

SkyCity is holding all the cards in the latest round of negotiations with the Government over its increasingly expensive convention centre, Labour's Economic Development spokesman David Clark says.

Design improvements, a new five-star hotel and inflation have rocketed up the SkyCity convention centre's pricetag by as much as $130 million.

SkyCity Entertainment Group, the casino and hotel operator, is in talks with the government on how to fund the increased cost of as much as $130 million to build an international convention centre in downtown Auckland.

A wealthy businessman who chained up a woman in his "dungeon" and forced her to perform sex acts has been jailed for 15 years.

The heartbroken mother of a man who died in a car crash while power lines prevented his rescue says she lies awake at night visualising his painful death.

A raft of new policies have been introduced in the wake of a fatal car crash in which a man died in front of rescuers eyes as they waited for power lines to be switched off.

A New Zealand judge has made reference to the Sydney siege as “the elephant in the room” while sentencing a man who shouted jihadist slogans at a Muslim leader.

An electrical engineer tasked with cutting power to a crash site where a man lay trapped inside his car, surrounded by power lines, did not call an operations centre for help despite being unable to find a substation for about an hour.

A senior fire fighter was "grasping at straws" as he asked a power company engineer to cut electricity to an Auckland suburb as they tried to reach a dying man.

Fire gutted a home and wrecked two cars in the Auckland street John Key once described as a dead-end place.

Speedway veteran Shayne Alach will captain Team New Zealand in the upcoming World Midget Series at WxC Speedway-Western Springs.

Sarah Ell and her son are awed, charmed and enlightened by a 'movie' at the Observatory.

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A serious crash brought Auckland’s motorway network to its knees with motorists stuck in grid-locked traffic for up to four hours.

A fire broke out at the TVNZ headquarters in central Auckland this morning.

The scene of a serious crash on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge has been cleared and the northbound lanes reopened.

A fire has broken out at TVNZ Headquarters on Victoria St, Auckland.

Artistic problems and political bickering are plaguing the $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf.

An organisation that houses Maori and Pasifika students so they are in zone for Auckland Grammar School will run a similar scheme for a nearby girls' school.

An Auckland grandmother who gambled away nearly $200,000 she stole from her employer will not go to jail.

It has no bedroom, no bathroom and no power - but it's just sold for close to $1.4 million.

Harbour views, sunny spaces, public events and safer, greener places for kids to play could all be part of the Auckland waterfront's future.

Real estate industry experts have labelled the latest residential property revaluations dangerous, with calls for the mass appraisal system to be overhauled or scrapped.

A man is lucky to be alive after he was nearly crushed by a concrete slab at a demolition site this afternoon.