A former Black Cap who took one of the greatest catches in cricket history says those wanting the best chance to snare a one-handed $100,000 should sit at deep mid-wicket.

New "executive" and "expert" positions in schools could have wide-reaching effects - including more-energised teachers and reduced competition between schools.

Labour MP Jacinda Ardern is putting a different spin on the phrase "on the record" by agreeing to do a slot as a DJ at the Laneway Festival on Monday night.

Kiwis are an outward-looking, globe-trotting bunch who want to explore the world, with many planning to move overseas for work, new research shows.

Police are trying to track down the owner of an Auckland rental property bought for almost $1 million last year which was destroyed by the young tenants.

Comedy video website Funny or Die, co-founded by Hollywood star Will Ferrell, has partnered with Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows.

Motorists wrongly ticketed in multi-occupancy vehicle lanes want Auckland Transport to use better detection tools such as thermal imaging.

Paul Henry's resurrection - a late-night TV3 current affairs show, which begins next week. He will not be watching what he says.

New Zealand has fallen well behind Australia and most of Europe in a new report ranking the healthiest places to eat in the world.

Newspapers are at the coalface of the media revolution this year as they push ahead with the switch in focus from print publications to online, writes John Drinnan.

Tuesday was a good day for Josef Roberts - he made about 30 million bucks.

Authorities missed many red flags before Bradley and Ellen Livingstone were killed by their father in their Dunedin home.

The small Dunedin school that slain siblings Bradley and Ellen Livingstone attended is working with their mother to plan a lasting memorial to their short lives.

She grew up in Whangarei as a ballerina and a vegetarian, but 23-year-old Emma Phillips is back as a Mandarin-speaking acrobat who loves eating duck heads.

Some holidays are hard work, but, as Danielle Wright finds out, that can be the point.

Clementine Benjamin and Lewis Wallace are young, in love, and expecting. Clem, 25, thought she didn't want kids so when she fell pregnant after a few months with Lewis, it came as a shock.

NZ's High Commissioner to the UK is still living in a $390k-a-year rented home in one of London's most upmarket districts while the official residence is for sale.

Auckland bus drivers have been given a taste of road rage from a new perspective yesterday - the handlebars of a fleet of hire bikes.

Day two at the wheel and I've had my first minor incident - with a pedestrian, not a cyclist, writes Martin Johnston.

Two early morning fires deliberately lit at an Auckland school and church may have been started by the same people, police say.

Auckland tops a survey of 44 countries - but not in a good way. It costs $228 to buy items you'd pay $62 for in Bali.

Fist-shaking cyclists who aggressively shout "open your eyes" to apparently bike-blind drivers are sharing in a problem that also worries motorists.

A young Kiwi is to get a taste of what it's like to work for one of the coolest companies on the planet.

Mandy and Clair Cordo share the hard lessons they have learned on their journeys in this third story on love in the 21st century.

This week, Herald health reporter and commuter cyclist Martin Johnston will drive to work for a motorist's view - five of his colleagues who usually drive, will bike.

Minor parties are likely to play a central role in this year's election campaign, but the 2014 election year could be the year of the 'micro party', writes Bryce Edwards.