Most small to medium-sized companies are optimistic about the future but confidence in Auckland remains lower than in the rest of NZ, a survey has found.

We profile four women with great ambitions to save the planet, keep us healthy and make us feel good — preferably all at the same time.

Many fathers find it a struggle to juggle parenting with work demands, says Gill South.

An orchid grower driven to desperation after losing his entire crop and income to a new spray dumped thousands of his flowers in a public protest.