Online retail sales growth is slowing and 19 out of every 20 New Zealand purchases are still made in a shop,

Auckland is suffering a desperate shortage of land for business expansion and retailing with a "critical short supply" of large format shopping space, says one Auckland councillor.

On the streets, in the parks and galleries, Auckland has a wealth of art treasures to seek out.

A bus driver carrying passengers in rush hour traffic was arrested for drink-driving after an alarmed motorist called police.

One person was taken to hospital in a critical condition after a crash on Auckland's Tamaki Drive this morning.

TV mogul Julie Christie has placed her Auckland Viaduct-based sports bar on the market, along with her extensive personal collection of sports memorabilia.

We love Masterchef winners Karena and Kasey's approach to food - generous, clever, fresh and always about sharing.

Aucklanders will get the inaugural taste of a worldwide gimmick when the city becomes the first of 130 across the globe to offer smartphone users icecream delivered by private driver today.

I'm on the couch this week. It's one of those faux-leather settees; bad for spinal alignment and I'm usually so tired I wake in the morning with a cushion zip imprinted on my cheek.

Singing skeleton puppets, free family workshops and historic swimming baths... Danielle Wright finds plenty to do on a city day out with her family.

A new report bragging about how cool and grown-up the ‘new’ Auckland is doesn’t even come close to imagining how great this city could be, writes Greg Dixon.

Auckland Council's desire to create "the world's most liveable city" is creating the world's most unaffordable city.

Up to 600 new apartments, townhouses and duplexes in 17 blocks, six to nine levels high, are planned in the now open areas around Wynyard Quarter.

Auckland Council yesterday granted its transport arm the power to raise prices at four inner city council-owned car parks.

Having a laugh at the expense of certain suburbs is a well-worn Auckland tradition, writes Shelley Bridgeman.

Auckland has been hit by power outages after a storm pushed across most of the region this evening.

Noise, vibration, trouble sleeping, turning a popular part of Auckland's waterfront and the busy Albert St into a construction site for years and pedestrian and vehicle disruption.

Penny Lewis gets a taste of the sort of luxury usually reserved for tourists.

A young man who helped his friend spray-paint swastikas and other graffiti on Jewish graves at a central Auckland cemetery has lost an appeal against his conviction.

The last services are being held at Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral today before a big construction project begins.

A big new Auckland office block, planned and developed during last decade's financial slump, last night picked up the Property Council's supreme award.

Prime Minister John Key continues to back John Banks as "an honest man" and says he still has "options" despite being found guilty of knowingly filing a false electoral return.

Self-styled public watchdogs Penny Bright and Graham McCready claimed their biggest scalp yesterday as Act MP John Banks was found guilty of electoral fraud.

Today's guilty verdict has ended John Banks' 34-year political career at least three months earlier than he would have hoped.

The rescue of a man was delayed by about an hour by live power lines, a coroner has heard.

Danielle Wright visits the National Youth Theatre Company at rehearsal.

Challenge Gerry Brownlee to sit in one of the downtown Customs St bus stops at peak hour and breathe deeply of the noxious fumes, writes Brian Rudman.