Shayne Cox is a winemaker who lives with his partner Kate Frances in Henderson Valley. Kate works at the historic Lopdell House Art Gallery in Titirangi and also helps with the business.

Thousands of fans who took the train to last week's 'family friendly' Rugby World Cup opening celebrations had a horrifying night they would rather forget.

As Auckland Art Gallery reopens its doors today, Linda Herrick walks through its marvellous collection of New Zealand art.

The parents of two-year-old Aisling Symes hugged and exclaimed "it's over" after coroner Garry Evans today completed the inquest into her death.

An 11-year-old boy is in Auckland's Starship Hospital after he became impaled on a steel spiked fence at school this morning.

One person was treated for smoke inhalation after firefighters put out a blaze at a west Auckland house this morning.

As a frontline cop lay on the ground taking blow after blow to his head, unable to fight back during a vicious attack by a burglary suspect, he didn't think he would survive.

It was a happy homecoming for US-based Lauren Boyle at the New Zealand swimming championships in Auckland last night.

Police say there does not appear to be any foul play involved in a death of a woman in west Auckland earlier today.

Constable wondered whether alleged assault was just 'the way things are done in west Auckland'.