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'A nightmare': Cars to be banned from Queen St
Auckland Transport is drawing up plans to remove through-traffic from Queen St within six months - banishing cars from stretches of the city's once busiest street.
Changes to the city centre's only remaining ...
Former Christchurch mayor and TV host Sir Bob Parker suffers stroke
Former Christchurch mayor and TV host Sir Bob Parker is determined to attend the February 22, 2011 earthquake memorial service despite his own ill-health.
Parker, who was mayor during the 2010-11 quakes ...
'You must be crazy': Michelle Boag fumes over Viaduct pop-up party plans
An on-shore drama has erupted over a pop-up America's Cup viewing deck at Viaduct Harbour.
The stoush pits controversial former National Party president Michelle Boag against trendy ready mixed drinks ...
Dennis Conner doesn't want to talk but he's not about to let that stop him
He was one of the key players in the America's Cup and he famously walked out on a Paul Holmes TV interview. Dennis Conner is 78 and long retired but, as Greg Bruce discovers, he's far from retiring ...
Anniversary long weekend stunner on way for northern New Zealand
The sweetest days of summer are set to spoil the more than a third of Kiwis enjoying a long weekend from today.
Auckland, Northland and Nelson mark their anniversary days on Monday, with sunshine on ...
Mary Holm: Soft words don't change renters' reality
OPINION:
Q: I am a residential property investor and read your page in the Herald most Saturdays. It is unfortunate that when advising people on the merits of buying property versus renting, you often ...
Audrey Young: Hipkins and Bloomfield put to the test
OPINION:
New Zealand has not been modest in its success with Covid-19 - but perhaps more smug than arrogant.
The immodesty is also partly because others continue to remind us of our collective success ...
All you need to know about the Prada Cup: Can Luna Rossa book a final spot?
All you need to know ahead of day two of the Prada Cup semifinals.
Win the start, sail a clean race and take the win.
It might not be as easy as it sounds, but that was how things played out on the ...
Aucklanders not out of woods despite long-weekend relief
New Zealand is not out of the woods quite yet when it comes to the current Covid-19 community scare, despite assurances Aucklanders can travel over the long weekend.
Director general of health Ashley ...
Watch: Inside Countdown's automated Amazon-like dark store
Walking into Countdown's giant Penrose e-store, at first glance it looks like any regular supermarket, with bread carriages, chillers and endless aisles of product.
But walking further into the massive ...
Mind the gap: The dangers of NZ's growing wealth divide
Max Rashbrooke talks to Joanna Wane about his groundbreaking father-and-son research into New Zealand's damaging wealth divide.
You could say it all began around the dinner table. Politics, socialism ...
Watch: Four teams, one goal - waka carvers prepare to set sail
For centuries Polynesian navigators voyaged across the Pacific in large sailing waka, using the natural world as their guide. That's how explorers first discovered New Zealand - but until very recently ...
'Horrific scenes': Man runs onto Trentham track during race
A huge Wellington Cup crowd was left stunned as a member of the public ran onto the track into a field of charging horses at Trentham today.
Remarkably nobody was injured in the incident that saw jockeys ...
'Dead in the water': American Magic eliminated in devastating fashion
American Magic have been eliminated from the Prada Cup in the most punishing fashion.
Down 3-0 in the semifinals against Luna Rossa, the syndicate from the New York Yacht Club needed to win the second ...
The six words from Dean Barker that doomed American Magic
ANALYSIS:
At 4:18pm on Saturday, six words from Dean Barker signalled the end of American Magic's campaign.
In a do or die race, as they trailed 3-0 in the best of seven series, Patriot had been beaten ...
School leader in boat rage incident: 'He came in at full speed ... I had to defend myself'
The woman dubbed a "Karen" after a violent boating rage incident is a primary school deputy principal who says she's now facing employment action because of the clash.
Catherine Browning was in tears ...
Prada Cup live: Luna Rossa v American Magic
Join us here for today's live blog of the Prada Cup semifinal between Luna Rossa and American Magic in Auckland.
All you need to know ahead of day two of the Prada Cup semifinals.
There ...
No new Covid cases after testing blitz; MIQ bedroom 'encounter' revealed
There are no new Covid-19 cases in the community after a testing blitz in which more than 6000 people were swabbed yesterday.
Over the past seven days, there have been about 38,000 tests, which Covid-19 ...