It wasn't meant to be a big party - just a gathering of a few friends of flatmates at the old Collingwood St villa to welcome a new flatmate.

It’s pitch black and Kina Scollay is in a cage at the bottom of the ocean as huge shapes emerge from the darkness.

We asked these people to test how much they could safely drink under the new drink-drive limit.

Alex and Corban Walls were runaway winners of the reality home-building show The Block last night, making a $307,000 profit.

A high profile Queen's Counsel and one of the country's biggest law firms are stepping down from Kim Dotcom's legal team.

Lucy Lawless says the death of a former Cuban fighter led her to realise she doesn't want to be present at the death of any more hardcore Xenites.

A British-born Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilisation fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor.

Phillip John Smith's criminal history is long and it is violent. He has terrified and tormented, abused and killed. What made him a such a monster?

Food writer and mother of two, Anna King Shahab, reveals her top ten ways to cut your food bill, but still eat well.

New Zealand is the third most prosperous country to live in according to an international report.

A European Space Agency astronaut has made a dazzling time-lapse video from aboard the International Space Station as it flew over New Zealand.

When Shoshana Roberts was filmed walking around New York she received 108 "catcalls". Here's what happened when the Herald carried out the same experiment in Auckland.

Terminal cancer sufferer Brittany Maynard, who has previously spoken of her right to die, has ended her own life.

For all the intensive treatment and devoted nursing care the tragic reality is that Michael Schumacher has made little improvement since his skiing accident

There was nothing illegal about the tackle that left 12-year-old Zachary Hullah in hospital and scared he might be paralysed. It was that the tackler who smashed him was twice his size.

The taxman has invested millions and decades trying to shut down schemes of its 80-year-old nemesis.

A law which takes away the legal right to a tea break and weakens collective bargaining has taken line honours as the first law change passed in National’s third term.

Young, aspiring Auckland first-home buyers are not saving enough, says a real estate agency boss, encouraging them to lower their expectations and spend less.

Aucklanders could pay a motorway toll of about $2 under a congestion-busting plan being unveiled by Mayor Len Brown today.

Travel Editor Winston Aldworth checks out the creature comforts aboard the airline's newest addition to the local fleet.

Auckland coffee roasters have won out at this year's coffee awards, taking home seven of the nine categories including the supreme award.

Peter Snell remains one of only two men to complete the 800m-1500m double at the same Olympic Games, writes David Leggat.

Alan Wallace is an accidental property investor, signing a deal to sell a 16ha East Tamaki site for more than $40m after paying $630,000 for the real estate 21 years ago.

Z Energy boss Mike Bennetts says the return of $2 a litre petrol could be on the cards if oil prices continue to plummet.

Today we're starting the New Zealand Herald data blog. In our first post we can reveal that broadband remains unaffordable for many rural New Zealanders.

A New Zealand restaurant has been voted in the top five best fine-dining establishments in the world.

The world's richest man is calling for a radical overhaul of our work-life balance that would see people at their jobs for just three days a week.