The Sylvia Park Shopping Centre in Central Auckland is gearing up for Christmas by taking the traditional Santa's grotto to a hi-tech new level.

Thousands of foodies are expected to flock to the festival this weekend.

Is this the drink of the summer?

Lewis Road have branched into the brewing market. Is it as good as their dairy products?

President Robert Mugabe is refusing to step aside, prompting calls for an election to be held

Animal rights activist said Northland farm was amongst the worst she had ever seen.

Animal rights activists have filmed the horrible conditions inside a Whangarei chicken farm ahead of the company seeking to open another farm in the Waikato.

Robert Mugabe's wife is widely loathed - and loved - throughout the nation

Teacher aide busts myth that those struggling to make ends meet are wasting money.

France have won the hosting rights to the 2023 World Cup, somehow managing to persuade a majority of voting members to go against the preferred bidder, South Africa.

President Robert Mugabe, 93, and his wife are “safe and sound” after Zimbabwe’s military seized control of capital, Harare.

NZ rugby boss says Rugby World Cup 2023 vote was democracy in action.

Mugabe: From political prisoner to violent guerrilla leader who became a brutal despot

An Auckland mother of three has laid her finances bare to bust the myth of poverty.

An Auckland mother of three lays her finances bare to bust one of the biggest myths of poverty in New Zealand

New restaurant Kai Pasifika brings the taste of the Pacific to Auckland

Auckland's annual house price fall is the largest since 2010

MetService is urging residents in the upper North Island to brace for stormy weather.

Celebrated kiwi chef Robert Oliver has finally brought fine Pacific cuisine to the world's largest Polynesian city with his new restaurant Kai Pasifika.

Results are in, and Australia has voted Yes to same-sex marriage. Here's the breakdown.

Sixty-one per cent of the vote was for same-sex marriage.

REINZ: Auckland median house price falls largest since 2010 - down 3.2 per cent.

Leila MacKinnon's daughter Jo-Anne was killed in the Kaikoura quake, one year on the 82 year old has finally been able to say her goodbyes.

One year after the Kaikoura quake, a mother finally says goodbye to her daughter.

Quake photos and artefacts to go on show at museum.

Are the Ports of Auckland set to become Ports of Northland?

After a shaky start, Kaikoura Museum is about to re-open with a photography exhibition covering the days after the quake.

Space running out at Helensville, Warkworth and Swanson cemeteries; Waikumete stretched.

More than 400 dead, and rising, after 7.3 quake struck border region between Iraq and Iran.

More than 400 people have died on the border of Iran and Iraq following an earthquake.