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Mary Holm: First step - Pay off the mortgage

Youth in holding pattern as recession bites north

The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

Rally NZ picks its new general manager

Car buyer's guide: Broke surfer catches a ride

Impoverished surfer Sam wants a useful ride - but doesn't want to drop more than two grand on it.

Where are the jobs? Youth unemployment crisis in the north

Just over a fifth of all working-age Northlanders were on welfare benefits at the end of March.

Where are the jobs? Desperate times, but hope on the way

Kiwi supercar heads for Goodwood

World champion dance crew out of cash to defend title

ReQuest, the New Zealand hip hop dance crew who took on the world and won, are struggling to find the funds to defend their title.

Dying 15-year-old's bucket list becomes internet hit

BNZ's Aussie bond issue

Mara visa won't be fast-tracked

Rugby: Chiefs make last drive for respectability

Worker robbed at gunpoint for cigarettes and cash

Prison for woman caught dealing drugs twice

The day Sophie died - mother's untold story

Read extracts from the new book by Lesley Elliott, detailing the life and death of daughter Sophie, killed in a frenzied attack...

Hunt on for thugs who attacked family

Rugby: Faumuina ready for tough job on the other side

Court web hunt for car upstages ACC