English theatre luminaries Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench are on a heavyweight list of artists and historians calling for the reopening of Auckland's St James Theatre.

Murray McCully says a structure planned for Queens Wharf is "most assuredly not a tent."

North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams is facing fresh criticism over an Easter email to councillors, which began: "Two blokes got crucified this week..."

A woman has been charged after a broken window pane severed a leg artery of a rubbish truck runner who collected the bag.

City-dwellers are being asked to save water around the home after three months of record-dry conditions.

John Roughan writes that we should live with the Queens Wharf sheds for a while before making decisions we may regret later.

Planning has started for a giant tent to be erected on Queens Wharf for the Rugby World Cup on the site of one of two 98-year-old cargo sheds.