John Key's right-hand man made a secret visit to former Act leader Rodney Hide in a desperate search to shore up a coalition partner for the National Party at this year's election.

The tussle to replace John Banks as Act's Epsom candidate is heating up ahead of the party's decision early next month.

Former Act on Campus leader and John Banks staffer David Seymour has changed his mind and will now seek the party's nomination for the key Epsom seat, he has confirmed.

Epsom Girls Grammar is considering a fresh complaint to Auckland Council after a Herald report that brothels are operating in its immediate area.

A group of Epsom and Royal Oak residents have been working themselves into a right old lather over low-flying aircraft, writes Brian Rudman.

One look at the crowd at the Food Show yesterday and it's obvious that cooking is attracting more and more men.

An informal street dance style that was born when the American GI's introduced Paris to the jitterbug in World War II.

The steady life in sales and prices started in the central Auckland suburbs over a year ago and has now spread across the new supercity. But as Bruce Morris reports, it's still tough going out in the provinces.

You know how much you're prepared to pay, so why take so long to lay your cards on the table? Bruce Morris ponders the slow-coach tactics of the auction room.

If you ever had any fear that birds dislike an urban environment, a walk through Epsom will dispel that notion.