The many-splendoured rooms of a genteel Victorian home captivate Penny Lewis.

Finished to perfection aptly describes this villa.

Hundreds of people wearing headlamps are scouring suburban streets after dark, Danielle Wright finds out why.

At one desk, a hotel room will cost about $600 a night. A few steps away, an identical room will be just $99 a night.

Every eventuality is being considered - even an early exit by the All Blacks.

Organisers of the Big Day Out deny the New Zealand leg of the musical festival is at risk - but say they are looking at venues other than Mt Smart Stadium after an increase in charges for its use.

The Rangitoto College student was punched in the face and stomach and had her hair pulled.

Jacqueline Smith blogs on New Zealand's Next Top Model.

A planned crackdown on "cannabinoid" substances will severely curtail the use of controversial synthetic cannabis product Kronic, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne says.

Prego's fans are plenty and enthusiastic. And deservedly so.

Wealthy kids get the attention, but making it through the teen years is always a challenge.

A blogger has declared overweight passengers have become a problem for taking up too much room on Auckland buses.

Chef Che Barrington brings fine-dining technique to bear on the street-market food of Asia.

A "tuakana" is a mentor (literally "older sibling") to a "teina", and this $20 double bill includes Strong Hands, a contemporary drama by Michael Rewiri-Thorsen and Te Awarua, a tragicomic melange of history and myth by tuakana Albert Belz.

Artist Liyen Chong, exhibiting as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, shares a few of her favourite things.