Natasha Francois and light sculptor Peter Roche live in Pt Chevalier in the distinctive building that used to house the Ambassador Theatre. Natasha tells Peta Stavelli what they love about the area.

In Auckland, we're in the middle of an Arts Festival. All over town there are actors, musicians, dancers and pornographic puppets doing their artistic business at myriad venues.

You don't have to go far to get up close with creatures great and small, discovers Bronwyn Sell.

In this Ron Sang-designed classic, a bow-shaped deck makes the home seemingly float above the lake.

Round the Bays is NZ's largest mass participation sporting event.

Rich in blue-chip perks, this property's future is wide open.

Police infiltrated the highest levels of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in an undercover operation that culminated in mass raids, nearly 30 arrests and the seizure of weapons and explosives today.

We have a New Zealand Fashion Festival experience prize pack to give away.

The 42 Indian musicians of The Manganiyar Seduction work their wiles in the glare of red and light-bulbs, piled up in a grid inspired by Amsterdam's red-light district.

An undercover operation dubbed one of the "deepest gang infiltrations" in New Zealand police history has seen 15 arrests and 20 properties raided.

When lunch is this good, who needs to go out for dinner?

A manhunt has been launched and two men are seriously injured after a stabbing at the Unitec campus in the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert this afternoon.

Fish is the name of the game at a waterfront eatery where the menu, though simple, proves well done.

Martha Wainwright describes her look as "ageless" - she is poised on the stage dressed like a school-girl with hair all wispy like her grandmother's.

The Grassroots festival, due to take place over Easter at Puhinui Reserve has been cancelled.

Every summer for 10 years I have spent a week with a bunch of about 100 men in a bush camp up north.

Maguy Marin's landmark work, celebrating 30 feted years of continuous performance, begins with the sculptured forms of its ten dancers, posed in dusty alabaster-like desertion.

My Wedding and Other Secrets is the second time Auckland director Roseanne Liang has put her married life on screen. This time though it's in a cross-cultural romantic comedy that has local box office hit written all over it.