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

Rafael Caso, creative account manager, and Karen Caso, hard-working mum, reckon they're lucky to live in Mangere Bridge, Auckland's best-kept-secret suburb. They tell James Russell why.

Nestled in verdant farmland, this home wears its past well.

Nazi catchphrases were among some of the coded conversations that convicted an underworld heavyweight.

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

With more than a few nerves at play, Diana Clement laces up for roller derby training.

Neshanderan Rajgopaul, 29, has been found guilty of attempting to murder Constable Jeremy Snow in Papatoetoe in December, 2009.

A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a man accused of shooting an Auckland police officer.

A man accused of shooting an Auckland police officer admitted he lied to police, a jury was told today.