This luxurious and sun-soaked property converted two certified city slickers to the good life

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

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.

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

Follow the wildlife to Tawharanui Regional Park near Matakana, New Zealand's first integrated open sanctuary. It's not just for the birds, as Danielle Wright discovers.

Queues of New Year's Eve traffic are beginning to build around the country.

The deaths of a teen riding on the back of a truck and a motorcylist this afternoon have brought the holiday road toll to five, while a serious crash stalled holiday traffic through Warkworth, north of Auckland.

In her work as an event stylist, Sonia Couling can let her imagination run wild, and that approach has helped her when it comes to decorating her Warkworth home.

For years, families have dropped off chickens that no longer lay or are no longer loved at the State Highway 1 carpark. Now, cars are pulling up for another reason: to kidnap the wild chooks.

A shortened trip between Auckland and Warkworth makes the stop at Plume all the more worthwhile.

This curved finger of land, pointing into Kawau Bay, was sold to the Auckland Regional Council in 1998 by George Scandrett, whose family farmed here from 1863.

TVNZ has received a record number of complaints about Paul Henry's remarks on Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand, and many staff within TVNZ were also angered by the comments.

John Key says he supports TVNZ's two-week suspension of Breakfast host Paul Henry, but has denied putting any pressure on the state broadcaster to take action.

A sculpture walk is the perfect way to combine the enjoyment of art with the beauty of our landscape.

The pretty township of Matakana is heaven for foodies, discovers Catherine Smith.

Police are holding out little hope a Waikato dairy farmer is still alive, three months after he disappeared.