Kirsty Wynn is a senior journalist for the New Zealand Herald with more than 25 years experience in Auckland newsrooms.
Kirsty Wynn is a senior journalist with more than 25 years experience in Auckland newsrooms. She started her career as a cadet at the Manukau Courier newspaper before gaining her journalism qualification. After a couple of years on a working holiday in London, she spent five years working for weekend papers before joining the Herald on Sunday in 2005 as a chief reporter. Since then she has worked across different NZME publications covering breaking news, crime, social issues, child safety and property. Kirsty has studied a Bachelor of Arts (English, Political Studies) at the University of Auckland and has a Graduate Diploma in Communications from Auckland University of Technology (AUT). She has won awards for her work covering breaking news, and childhood cancer and has been a finalist for reporter of the year at the Voyager Media Awards. You can contact Kirsty at kirsty.wynn@nzme.co.nz.
Is this Auckland's last unnamed beach?
Could you have naming rights to this unnamed beach? Buy it and find out.
Only 4% of house sales 'affordable'
Auckland's ever-shrinking affordable housing market has shrunk even further.
10 Auckland suburbs under $500,000
The latest QV statistics show only 10 of Auckland's 167 suburbs have homes with a median value under $500,000.
A whole new Block for popular series
The new Fans versus Faves series will see newbie renovators pitted against past contestants and is due to start filming in the coming months.
'To Train Up a Child' available in libraries
A mum has launched a campaign to ban from public libraries a book that instructs parents to withhold food and whip their children with tree branches and belts.
Auckland house prices soar
Average asking prices for houses for country smash through the half-million-dollar barrier for the first time but in Auckland the rampant market is surprising even the experts.
Flats, not superbrothel
New plans for a high-rise apartment block have been submitted for the central Auckland site that was to house a controversial super-brothel.
Want a bach? Price drops $100 a day
The owners of a bach in the fishing village of Kaiaua in Franklin reckon they have the right bait for prospective buyers - dropping their price by $100 a day.
Under siege in inner city
Owners of inner-city apartments believe their buildings are being used as "halfway homes" by Housing NZ - leaving them scared to use lifts, foyers and facilities.
Block home up for grabs
The winning house from the first series of The Block is up for grabs again.
Police help short-changed sex worker
Police resolved a dispute between a sex worker and a client who refused to pay - by escorting the man to a cash machine to settle his $100 bill.
For sale: $45k city studio in Auckland
An inner-city apartment in Auckland is on the market for $44,850 — less than the average price of a city carpark.
The Block gets green light
The next season of renovation show The Block NZ has been given the green light - with some council-imposed extras to the cast.
Would you like lamb brain with that?
If lambs' brain tacos, sharing plates of bone marrow and a pig's head terrine sound more Fear Factor than restaurant fare - think again. The "forgotten cuts" are staging a comeback.
Inflated property values in Auckland
These modest homes show just how far Auckland house prices have skyrocketed beyond the rest of the country.
Games and the real world
A study into muscle movements in teen gamers may shed light on links between violent video games and real life aggression.
Two more houses added in Block plans
Production company Eyeworks this week applied for resource consent for the four houses in Newell St, in the Central Auckland suburb of Pt Chevalier.
Pt Chev residents to fight show
Residents of a central Auckland street chosen for the new season of The Block NZ have formed a group to stop production of the top-rating TV show.
Dying volunteer kept condition to herself
A woman who died of cancer this week had volunteered with the Breast Cancer Foundation without telling people about her condition. Jenna Slaven, 27, was farewelled yesterday in Auckland.
Tiny house with a big price tag
A pint-sized house - smaller than a double garage and below the minimum permitted size for an apartment - may be the new first rung on Auckland's hard-to-reach property ladder.
School donation tops $1000
A top Auckland secondary school is asking parents to shell out more than $1000 when their sons return to class in two weeks' time.