Police today questioned businesses in downtown Auckland in the hunt for clues to the slaying of Carmen Thomas.

A student admitted to a 111 operator that he had fatally stabbed another student, jurors hear.

Dita De Boni hopes the first Super City mayor will give Aucklanders a reason to abandon their cars.

With Fashion Week turning 10, Canvas columnist and World co-founder Denise L'Estrange-Corbet meditates on its importance, its problems and recounts a memorable tanty at World's first New Zealand show.

The glitz and glamour of New Zealand Fashion Week hits the catwalk on Tuesday. It is the culmination of weeks of frantic preparation - on stage and off. Emma Dunlop talks to a model, a reporter, a buyer, a designer and a stylist.

It might be New Zealand's showcase fashion event but overseas models are earning the big dollars.

Follow the money, they say. But after the recession, there's no big money at New Zealand Fashion Week this year.

Paul Henry's expletive-laden acceptance speech was a highlight of the Qantas Film and Television Awards last night.

Results, comment and other rubbish from tonight's Qantas Film and Television Awards Gala.

Two people died when the car they were travelling in crashed after fleeing from police last night in Auckland.

Delivery of the New Zealand Herald newspaper to homes in Auckland has been delayed this morning.

Two people were killed and two others seriously injured in a crash after a police chase in an Auckland suburb last night.

Michele Hewitson speaks to the man at the helm of Auckland's most traditional private school for boys, King's College.

Severe thunderstorms were lashing parts of the upper North Island tonight following chaos further south, as a powerful storm moved across the country.

A massive storm is making its presence felt on towns, cities and suburbs across NZ. See how it's impacting your area.

A storm the size of Australia is hitting New Zealand with winds of 130km/h around Wellington and heavy snow falling in parts of Westland.

The MetService has issued severe weather warnings for all of NZ as a storm the size of Australia passes over. Strong gales are forecast in many North Island areas and heavy snow in the south.

Auckland went mad in the 1980s with a flood of bubbly, stupid hair, gauche glass towers and an overheated stock market. Alan Perrott talks to those who attend Auckland's longest, maddest party ever ...

The race to be the Auckland Super City's first leader is "tweeting" up as mayoral candidates deliver bite-sized campaign messages.

The body of a woman found in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour on Sunday has been identified as a patient who disappeared from Auckland Hospital.