Auckland Council offers guidelines for healthier Diwali food.

Winston Peters plays Burning Bridges song while speaking to media.

Families across NZ will be celebrating Diwali, or the 'Festival of Light'.

Tonga's historic rugby league clash with Australia isn't until Saturday but the excitement has already boiled over in the streets of Auckland.

Simon Bridges denies corruption allegations as Jami-Lee Ross is kicked out of the National Party.

Google's focus is on developing AI to give users access to a range of new features.

National MPs Amy Adams and Judith Collins comment on Jami-Lee Ross ahead of the caucus meeting.

Minister for Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson says findings "deeply disappointing".

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses petrol taxes.

Heron's review has concluded Anthony Peden had an inappropriate relationship with a female athlete.

Inquiry fingers Jami-Lee Ross as National expenses leaker - caucus to decide his future.

A west Auckland man built the ultimate Kiwi summer hack - and it's surprisingly simple.

Tama Nio-Aporo's 'beer table', that took him a day and a half to make, is designed for 'lazy' summer drinkers.

Teacher says NZ recruitment agency did not put his name forward for a single job.

Hot Water Beach Lifeguard Chairman Gary Hinds comments on the drowning of Angelo Tuyay at the beach over the weekend.

'Rap God' comes to capital: Eminem to play one show next year.

A group of women battling terminal cancer tell the Herald what they would do with extra time

The Herald investigates whether it's possible to shop plastic free by visting 3 NZ supermarkets armed with a shopping list of 17 kitchen staples or household items.

A pine tree had been ring barked about 90% of the way around. Because of this, it had to be removed.

A 20 metre pine has been destroyed and a pohutukawa attacked as a sea view beckons.

Former New Zealand Olympic skeleton racer Ben Sandford speaks to The New Zealand Herald about being a representative of WADA. / Alan Gibson

Ben Sandford, Olympian, lawyer, Labour candidate on why he didn't quit Wada over Russia.

Star Trek actor William Shatner joked about sending Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's baby into space, as he opened Rocket Lab's new factory in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington.

Bus crashes into shop, 3 pedestrians injured, in Birkenhead, Auckland.

Deadly storm Hurricane Michael has obliterated much of the Florida coastline.

NZX drops further after yesterday's huge plunge

Singapore Airlines captain S L Leong explaining the airline's Singapore-New York flight. / Grant Bradley / Airbus

Libby McCarthy first became interested in Myanmar when she was a high school student.

Fiona Miller has sponsored three girls from India and Africa in the past 16 years.