Pretty dresses and comfort are high on the agenda for hair stylist Kate Murphy.

Wilmar International is to pay $2.14 billion to buy the sugar assets of Australian conglomerate CSR - including Chelsea.

An 88-year-old man has died after a car crashed into his bedroom in Northcross this afternoon.

Police hope to speak to Jacqueline Blackbourn's ex-partner, who is now out of an induced coma, in the next day or two.

A woman who died in a mystery house fire on Auckland's North Shore was an English immigrant who had lived in NZ for 20 years.

Police have confirmed they are investigating a homicide after a woman died in a house fire in the North Shore suburb of Glenfield on Saturday.

The toxic sea slugs which sparked health warnings at Auckland beaches last year appear to be on their way back.