When I find out we're going to be riding a 'trike', it's hard to stop my mind conjuring up images of a 3-wheeler kiddy toy.

Auckland Mayor John Banks calls the city's new local government structure "an inspired piece of work".

The Auckland Super City will be made up of 12 wards with about 20 local boards at the grassroots democracy level.

Rescue workers had to pull a badly injured woman from the wreckage of a Great Barrier Airlines plane that crashed yesterday.