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 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.

A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.

Unitec training first set up for Maori and Pasifika.

Speaker Lockwood Smith has dethroned Prime Minister as 2009's top parliamentary performer, a newsletter claims.