First the nail bar, now the blowdry bar ... convenience comes to town.

Team New Zealand is among dozens of organisations that have lost their charitable status in a crackdown by the new Charities Commission.

Mark Hotchin has flown his personal trainer from Auckland to Hawaii to play tennis, teach him how to surf and to help improve his golf swing.

Failed Hanover Finance director Mark Hotchin's unfiinished mansion is big enough to contain 13 average houses just on its floor space.

Angry neighbours say Hanover Finance director Mark Hotchin's $30m mansion has wiped hundreds of thousands of dollars off their own property values.

A portrait by renowned NZ artist Charles Frederick Goldie is expected to sell for close to $250,000 when it goes up for auction in Auckland.

There is still 18 months to go - but sharp homeowners are already queuing up to rent out their properties during the Rugby World Cup.

The parore, or black snapper, is common in many fish-and-chip shops - although customers would never know.

A man who lived in a state house while he rented out two properties of his own has been sentenced for defrauding the taxpayer.

Ngati Whatua has given up part of its land at Bastion Point for homeless people to grow vegetables for the City Mission's foodbank.

Mounting debts of more than $2.7 million have forced hospitality heavyweight David Williams and his wife and business partner Harbans to put five of their companies into liquidation.

A man is facing allegations he lived off the taxpayer in state housing while he was a landlord owning two properties.