Exclusive photos from Foals' headline set at the 2011 Laneway Festival in Aotea Square, Auckland.

Your guide to Auckland's food courts - a banquet of cheap eats.

The expansive view from the back veranda of The Java Room is slightly spoiled by a hulking tower.

Never mind Europe's easy weekend haunts, we have Waiheke Island, writes Kerri Jackson.

Impressive effort opens up options as star filly accounts for rivals with ease.

Council wants to keep sex workers out of sight during this year's Rugby World Cup.

Live At the Islands draws some big music names to support conservation work.

Thousands have been flocking to the Viaduct Harbour this holiday weekend to tuck into seafood ranging from oysters to sea escargots (sea snails).

Quality smallgoods, dried delights and exotic produce are set to make their mark.

NZ's premier retail street could be blocked to vehicles and turned into a mall in a move reminiscent of New York's reclaiming Broadway for pedestrians.

Mark Donnelly explains how a better result could have been achieved in St Heliers

A pub tenant is being sought for Auckland's historic Birdcage Tavern near Victoria Park.

Lisa Latta clearly remembers her thoughts moments before Fort Lincoln mastered Antonio Lombardo in last night's $1 million Karaka Million at Ellerslie.

For local tugboat enthusiast Baden Pascoe, there is something honourable and magical about a vessel that has been a workhorse most of its life.

The Auckland Anniversary regatta is now 171 years old. The Herald on Sunday's Anniversary Day magazine is dedicated to the regatta and all those who make it happen and who participate in it.

I managed to spend some time on Waiheke Island over the break, soaking up the sun and catching up with friends.

Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.

Swimmers at risk as council fails to test water.

Despite marking its fifth consecutive year, the 2011 Auckland Seafood Festival has a number of firsts up its sleeve.

Waka ama is more than just the fun sport of outrigger canoeing, which fits in ideally with our Kiwi lifestyle and attracts paddlers of both sexes from age 7 to 70.

They are the grand old vessels of the sea - the ships of old, restored to full glory to sail Auckland's harbours once again, like they did more than a century ago.