Danielle Wright finds a game of snakes and ladders the perfect lure for her family along the Pakuranga Rotary Walk.

A teen murderer's "one-fingered salute" to a press photographer made a lie of his remorse, a High Court judge says.

A teen who stabbed a fellow partygoer to death over a kiss has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 11 years.

The steady life in sales and prices started in the central Auckland suburbs over a year ago and has now spread across the new supercity. But as Bruce Morris reports, it's still tough going out in the provinces.

Jools and Lynda Topp's Pakuranga Bowling Club alter egos almost brought the Civic's roof down.

Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Exercise, fresh air and new perspectives await those who venture on to Auckland's off-road cycleways, writes Kirsten Warner.

The family of young mother Jackie Allister is dumbfounded at her murder.

Blood-soaked carpet and household items have been removed from the home of an Auckland couple found dead after the woman's 14-year-old sister called 111.

Police were this afternoon continuing inquiries into events leading to the deaths of a man and a woman overnight after a reported domestic incident.

Get off the couch. You know you'll feel better, especially when you can come home to leftovers and a lie down.