Cate Foster gets on her bike and enjoys the trails of Woodhill Forest - and the refreshment waiting at the end of her journey.

Act's new parliamentary leader says an image revamp is more than a decade overdue.

Oh the joy when my fine doctor, William Fergusson, told me there was a new French restaurant in Kumeu.

Armed robbers are targeting two small communities near Auckland, including one holdup in which a terrified golf instructor tried desperately to get his boss' attention over a live security camera as he was being tied up by the gunman.

The trip to Riverhead Tavern is all part of the experience, writes Cate Foster.

A road trip to try some of our rarer wines is a treat more tempting than chocolate eggs.

Overcoming her fears was easier than Joelle Thomson imagined in her wildest downhill nightmares, thanks to a top Auckland ski instructor.

The autumn school holidays have started, and Easter is next weekend - make the most of the last of the warm weather by going somewhere you've never been.

Mid-term and looking for a rest from routine, Danielle Wright gathered up her family and their gumboots, and headed for the hills.

Free-range eggs, on the spot, while you wait, somewhere near Helensville.

The campaign against setting up to 200 tidal turbine power generators in Kaipara Harbour shifts next month to the Helensville electorate of Prime Minister John Key.

A man been jailed for twice raiding a fruit business' honesty box at Warkworth to pay gang associates who were threatening him.

A body has been pulled from the water after a light plane crashed into the ocean near Orewa Beach, north of Auckland. Pieces of the wreckage are washing up on the beach.

Delicious cheese is a serious business at Crescent Dairy Goats farm in Kumeu, writes Phil Parker.

In a grand hall in the riverside town of Warkworth where they once printed the news, men in grey T-shirts and dusty Oracle Racing caps are making news of their own.

80 Matakana families have been without highway access to their homes for six weeks since cyclone

You don't have to go far to get up close with creatures great and small, discovers Bronwyn Sell.