Top-selling agents from four of Auckland's biggest real estate agencies give their assessment of how the market has been tracking in the past few months and, more importantly, where they think it's going.

A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.

National MP Melissa Lee is reportedly under investigation over the way her television production company used taxpayer funds.

Police say they cannot rule out foul play over the disappearance of an overseas student a week ago.

A man is in custody after police received reports of a man with a gun at an address in Mt Albert this morning.