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

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

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

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Fashion Week wound up with a scramble for bargains at the Herald Designer Garage Sale.

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.

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

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.

Pacman with a moko and Superman with the famous S symbol picked out in a carved pattern where just some of the nice twists modernising Maori design at the Miromoda show.

The man accused of killing two passengers when he crashed while fleeing police in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga can now be named.

Clooney is one of Auckland's prime restaurants, with a menu to die for.

Search and rescue staff were this morning lowered down a hole at the central Auckland building site where the man charged with the murder of Auckland escort Carmen Thomas worked.