More than 700 Auckland residents are without power this evening due to an outage.

Families were woken by the racket of a noisy concrete pour at 5.30am as Auckland's frenzied building boom reaches fever pitch.

Police have received lots of feedback about a car seen at the quarry.

A dedicated police team is following leads on the vicious Riverhead quarry assault.

'The Boss' Bruce Springsteen and the annual Pride Parade headlined a 'Super Saturday' for the City of Sails yesterday.

A quick thinking member of the public put out a car fire during the pride parade after an Air New Zealand truck caught fire.

The fifth annual Auckland Pride Parade has roared into life on Ponsonby Road.

The Bachelor contestant Shari Flavell has apologised for being caught drink driving.

The end of a three-year affair with a Dunedin businessman allegedly led an Auckland woman to harass her former lover's wife.

COMMENT: The visa applications of the Indian students sheltering in an Auckland church are fraudulent and the law is the law.

There's "something for everyone" at tomorrow's 17th annual Big Gay Out, including drag queens and an all-day dance party.

An Auckland woman says she was left looking "like a burns victim" after a botched beauty treatment at a Ponsonby salon.

After nearly 15 years since she came out of the closet about her sexuality, 29-year-old transsexual Cecilia Kang still gets hurtful things said to her.

Labour leader will make a last-ditch appeal to the Government not to deport a group of Indian students over fraudulent documents submitted by their immigration agents.

A church harbouring Indian students facing deportation asks the Government to allow them to stay on compassionate grounds.

The Auckland church that hosted NZ's first same-sex marriage has decided to give sanctuary to nine Indian students facing deportation over a student visa fraud.

Power to Pedal founder Eddie Jack explains where his tour company sits within the crowded tourism industry.

Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye speaks about the positives following a "gruelling few months" since her breast cancer diagnosis.

Police are speaking to a suspect after a man asked an Auckland schoolboy to get into his car this morning.

The lighting ceremony for the famous Christmas lights display took place in Ponsonby tonight and included a lot of fake snow.

The man acquitted of murdering a Kiwi woman is understood to have slipped into the country under a new name last weekend and has already been spotted out and about.

Four masked offenders ram raided a Spark store in Ponsonby this morning.

Did you buy a Lotto ticket from Ponsonby this week? If so, your weekend may have just got a whole lot better.

The well-planned modernisation of this home means its character has been retained, says Penny Lewis

It took 20 minutes for orders to be taken. At this point you might wonder if this was the first occasion on which Harvey had been to a restaurant

Steve Braunias pictures himself living in one of the photographs in his new book - a photo essay about sad, beautiful shops in small towns.

The greatest horse race in the southern hemisphere slips into stride today at Flemington. Here's your online Melbourne Cup guide with a Kiwi flavour.

Offices around the country will grind to a standstill next Tuesday tomorrow at 5pm when the 156th Melbourne Cup kicks off over the

The woman who sold the winning ticket for the country's biggest ever Lotto win says she still talks about how close she came to $33 million.

A cyclist was injured this morning after being clipped by a van in Ponsonby.