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Fashion styles across New Zealand
What do women wear in fashion cities around New Zealand? We check in with some boutique owners around the country to find out what their customers are buying for winter.

Review: Cable Bay Vineyards Restaurant, Waiheke
An old story goes that the guides in the Uffizi, the fabulous Renaissance gallery in Florence, would quietly remind visitors that "it is not the paintings that are on trial here".

Who owns this superyacht? The $120m question
A multimillion-dollar luxury superyacht anchored off Queen's Wharf is drawing extra attention to Auckland's...

Waiheke Island: From ferry to forest
A free guided walk on Waiheke Island brings visitors closer to nature.

Wendyl Nissen: Gold Card nirvana
Great island, notes Wendyl Nissen, just leave me in peace on the ferry.

Quake victim flees arson hit home
A father who lost his 8-month-old son in the February 22 earthquake says he and his young daughters would probably have died in one of a spate of suspected weekend arson attacks if he hadn't been woken by a neighbour...

My happy place: Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island walking guide, Janine James, shares what she loves about her own slice of paradise.

Refurbished city-fringe office has plenty of appeal
Extensive renovations give this 1960s office building a contemporary look.

Review: Dos Amigos Cantina, Mission Bay
Isn't Mission Bay a perfect example of the urban seaside? Rangitoto smiles - or in bad weather, glowers - and the wind scoops white-tops across the harbour surface. So why is it the place that good food forgot?

New era for Auckland Viaduct hotel
Auckland's former Westin Hotel on the edge of the Wynyard Quarter is to be rebranded the...