Audience treated to substantial if sombre quartet inspired by people and places.

There goes Fashion Week again, and with it that decadent little mid-year rev-up for the soul, writes Rebecca Barry.

As ambulance officer Masina Reid attended to a seriously ill patient, a thief was stealing her bag from the back of the ambulance.

Police are investigating a death threat against a political organiser in relation to a possible Super City voting scam in South Auckland.

Fusing wine and artistic licence is for the people, writes Joelle Thomson.

Gill South talks to four women about their love of beautiful footwear, and gains tips on how to indulge.

Union leader and political commentator Matt McCarten has endorsed Super City candidates to help left-leaning voters elect a progressive mayor and Auckland Council.

Council candidates, promoters back Herald plea to save decaying theatre.

Her Facebook page declares she's "in a relationship", so it should come as no surprise that Keisha Castle-Hughes chose the high profile venue of Nicole Miller's Fashion Week show on Thursday to introduce her new man.

A TEDx conference in Auckland this weekend brought together hundreds of innovators and thinkers to look at 'ideas worth spreading'.

Anyone who has been to Vietnam knows that the best food comes from the north.

Auckland's St James Theatre is part of one of five convention centre bids being considered.

Police today found "odd-shaped" bits of concrete at the building site that is the focus of the Carmen Thomas murder inquiry.

A boat belonging to a friend of murder accused Brad Callaghan has been taken by police for forensic testing.

I grew up in Gisborne, where most people I knew wore hand-me-downs that had been in circulation since the arrival of the early settlers.

Huffer thinks big and having invited around 1000 people along to its Fashion Week show, luckily for it the weather gods were in a good mood.

It was bouquets and applause for 10 years of Fashion Week at a special Retrospective show featuring old favourites and lost labels.

Like beauty, fashion truly is in the eye of the beholder. One lady's haute couture can be another's fashion faux pas.

School term finished early for many lucky kids with an excitable queue forming well before 2pm for the Trelise Cooper Kids show at Fashion Week.

Search teams spent the day at the bottom of a hole in a central Auckland building site, dredging and sifting through bucket loads of grey water and rubble, in the search for clues as to the whereabouts of Carmen Thomas' body.

Last season it was Thirties depression, this year inspiration for The Carpenters Daughter show ticked back to the Edwardian period.

Blak makes wearable pieces for women who like the idea of buying from smaller shops not chain stores.