The latest Chinese bid for the Crafar dairy farms is a key test for new rules on foreign ownership, reports Karyn Scherer

Transport Agency confirms June 16 as deadline for bids from contractors.

Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

Fashionable events worth checking out this week.

The Maori Party has announced it will stand a candidate against Hone...

So close to Auckland, and yet a world away, is a hotel tucked into an area of unsurpassed beauty. Nikki Birrell heads into the heart of the Waitakeres.

An 11-year-old boy impaled at an Auckland school this morning asked his rescuers not to amputate his leg as they cut him off a school fence. He slipped while climbing the fence but is unlikely to suffer permanent damage.

A Matamata truck driver was looking for a dog on the side of a road when he came across a young girl thought to be the victim of a hit-and-run overnight.

A real estate agent was caught out on tape by a couple upset over his "unprofessional behaviour" when selling their home.

From half-hour family rambles to full-day tramps, explore Auckland's finest green space.

More than 1000 infringements were recorded by police during a blitz on drink driving over Easter at the top of the South Island.

One person was treated for smoke inhalation after firefighters put out a blaze at a west Auckland house this morning.

A post-mortem is likely to be carried out tomorrow on a decomposed body found on a west Auckland beach, police said. The identity of the body, found at South Head on Friday, had not yet been confirmed.

Designed to sit unobtrusively in its verdant surrounds, this charming character home is a nature-lover's delight.