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Fashion styles across New Zealand
What do women wear in fashion cities around New Zealand? We check in with some boutique owners around the country to find out what their customers are buying for winter.

Review: Cable Bay Vineyards Restaurant, Waiheke
An old story goes that the guides in the Uffizi, the fabulous Renaissance gallery in Florence, would quietly remind visitors that "it is not the paintings that are on trial here".

Who owns this superyacht? The $120m question
A multimillion-dollar luxury superyacht anchored off Queen's Wharf is drawing extra attention to Auckland's...

Jazz up your Easter weekend
Waiheke Island International Jazz Festival event director John Quigley chats to Danielle Wright about this year's line-up and why it's the ideal 'Waihekend'.

Waiheke Island: From ferry to forest
A free guided walk on Waiheke Island brings visitors closer to nature.

Quake victim flees arson hit home
A father who lost his 8-month-old son in the February 22 earthquake says he and his young daughters would probably have died in one of a spate of suspected weekend arson attacks if he hadn't been woken by a neighbour...

My happy place: Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island walking guide, Janine James, shares what she loves about her own slice of paradise.

Local spots ripe for the picking
Danielle Wright makes a day trip out of her family's fruit and vegetable shopping and discovers there are more options for 'picking your own' than she expected

Refurbished city-fringe office has plenty of appeal
Extensive renovations give this 1960s office building a contemporary look.

Review: Dos Amigos Cantina, Mission Bay
Isn't Mission Bay a perfect example of the urban seaside? Rangitoto smiles - or in bad weather, glowers - and the wind scoops white-tops across the harbour surface. So why is it the place that good food forgot?

New era for Auckland Viaduct hotel
Auckland's former Westin Hotel on the edge of the Wynyard Quarter is to be rebranded the...

Brunch: Luscious, Onehunga
We came here because we often stop for some of their great takeaway coffee en route to the train station at the south end of the Mall and have been meaning to come back for a sit-down meal for a while.

'Christie's Law' bail protest 'restores faith'
The parents of Christie Marceau told hundreds of protesters outside the High Court at Auckland their presence at a demonstration against current bail laws has helped restore their faith.