Latest fromSouth Auckland
Blue collar - the new conservatives take over
A new generation of conservatives has wrested our biggest city from the left, and they're just as likely to wear black jeans as business suits.
No sign of missing fisherman
Police are searching for a second man who is presumed drowned after a floundering expedition went tragically wrong.
School issues first national standards-based reports
Some of NZ's first national standards-based student reports have been issued by a Hamilton school amid concerns from its principal.
Pair guilty of disabled woman's manslaughter
The caregivers of an intellectually disabled woman have been found guilty of manslaughter by a High Court jury today, after seven hours of deliberations.
Teacher crushed in wheelie bin tried to share taxi
The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.
Defence closes in caregivers' trial over death
The defence closed its case today in the trial of two caregivers accused of beating an intellectually impaired woman and leaving her to die.
Buffalo soldiers (+recipe)
Geraldine Johns meets a Clevedon couple whose battle to create the perfect cheese and yoghurt has yielded some award-winning results.
<i>Sri Mahkota</i>, Remuera
Malaysian food has been a favourite of mine since hitchhiking through there in my early twenties.
Slain liquor store owner's widow shocked at only one murder verdict
The wife of a slain south Auckland liquor store owner is stunned five men charged with murder have been found not guilty of both murder and manslaughter.
One guilty of liquor store owner's murder
Anitilea Chan Kee (above right) is convicted of murdering liquor store owner Navtej Singh but friends are shocked by not guilty verdicts against five others.