Exclusive photos from Foals' headline set at the 2011 Laneway Festival in Aotea Square, Auckland.

Your guide to Auckland's food courts - a banquet of cheap eats.

The expansive view from the back veranda of The Java Room is slightly spoiled by a hulking tower.

All the action from the bands and the crowds at the 2011 Laneway Festival at Aotea Square on Auckland Anniversary Day.

Live reports, information and anything else we can think of from the Laneway Festival at Auckland's Aotea Square.

Impressive effort opens up options as star filly accounts for rivals with ease.

Council wants to keep sex workers out of sight during this year's Rugby World Cup.

Live At the Islands draws some big music names to support conservation work.

Thousands have been flocking to the Viaduct Harbour this holiday weekend to tuck into seafood ranging from oysters to sea escargots (sea snails).

Quality smallgoods, dried delights and exotic produce are set to make their mark.

NZ's premier retail street could be blocked to vehicles and turned into a mall in a move reminiscent of New York's reclaiming Broadway for pedestrians.

Mark Donnelly explains how a better result could have been achieved in St Heliers

The Auckland Anniversary regatta is now 171 years old. The Herald on Sunday's Anniversary Day magazine is dedicated to the regatta and all those who make it happen and who participate in it.

The Auckland Anniversary Day regatta has always been a family affair for yachting legend Penny Whiting - while she was being born, her father was on the Waitemata Harbour racing in the very same regatta.

For local tugboat enthusiast Baden Pascoe, there is something honourable and magical about a vessel that has been a workhorse most of its life.

I managed to spend some time on Waiheke Island over the break, soaking up the sun and catching up with friends.

Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.

Swimmers at risk as council fails to test water.

Despite marking its fifth consecutive year, the 2011 Auckland Seafood Festival has a number of firsts up its sleeve.