If the kids are city slickers, get visit a local petting farm to get them in touch with some of New Zealand's favourite animals.

We sent our two experts out to find Auckland's best playgrounds. Diana Clement reports back.

Grant Gillard gives an exclusive account of last week's fatal struggle at his pharmacy.

An Auckland woman has been charged with threatening her blind neighbour and her guide dog, but she claims it's all "a storm in a teacup".

A burglar who died while wrestling with a pharmacist was a convicted killer driver with an extensive criminal history.

Police have named the man who died in an Auckland pharmacy after a struggle early yesterday morning.

The Herald understands a pharmacist struggled with an intruder and was holding the man down before he went into cardiac arrest.

If you are a size 16 or over and always wondered if you had it in you to be a model, now's your chance.

A man who broke into an Auckland pharmacy died after a struggle with the pharmacist, police say.

A man is dead following what police believe was an attempted burglary at an Auckland pharmacy.

A resident's complaint about "strange men knocking at his door" has led to a council using a technical clause to close a brothel.

Police said there was not enough evidence to proceed against an Auckland teacher aide accused of posing as an undercover cop at a massage parlour.

Turned away from Sal Rose's doors one recent Saturday night, we came back for another go on Sunday night. Second time lucky - just.

Top-selling agents from four of Auckland's biggest real estate agencies give their assessment of how the market has been tracking in the past few months and, more importantly, where they think it's going.