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Focus: Chinese New Year 2019 - The Year of the Pig

Jojo Zhou talks about this year being The Year of the Pig in Chinese zodiac.

Focus: Stolen $55,000 bronze gnome returned to Auckland gallery after three week hiatus

A $55,000 bronze gnome sculpture stolen from outside Gow Langsford Gallery has been found abandoned in West Auckland.

Focus: 'Worse than pigs': Unruly tourists 'trash', fraudsters says Phil Goff

The unruly tourists have generated headlines across the country.

Exclusive interview: Holidaymakers from hell came to NZ 'to see Hobbits'

Unruly tourists claim they've been badly treated by Kiwis, but now face deportation.

Striking junior doctors vocal about working rights outside Auckland City Hospital

From 7am today, hospitals from around the country will be without 3300 junior doctors for 48 hours - around 80 per cent of DHB-employed junior doctors.

The gnome's home: Stolen sculpture returned to gallery

Gnome left at Salvation Army with a note: "Please return to Gow Langsford Art Gallery".

Meghan Markle's female bodyguard quits

She's had enough after less than a year in the job. Turns out she isn't the only one.

The H-Files: Dark days in the lost suburb Newton East

A murder, a suspicious death, an armed robbery and a whipping.

Focus: Author writes children's book about Newton East

Lynnie Howcroft is the co-writer of Barkell and Mr Arkell a children's book about Auckland's Newton East.

Focus: Man killed in Meadowbank bus crash named

The man killed when his car collided with a bus in Meadowbank has been named, 24-year-old Jarryd Davidson. / Video by Michael Craig

Local Focus: Legendary lifeguard's career spans 40 years

This 61 year old lifeguard has no plans of stopping. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Hero saves man from Harbour Bridge leap

A second was all it took Jesse Harrison to bolt, in jandals, towards the bridge edge.

Focus: Karen Walker on creating global success with style

The New Zealand Herald spoke to Karen Walker where she talks about the moment Michelle Obama wore a double denim Karen Walker design.

Focus: Air NZ plans to become the most carbon neutral airline

Air NZ's Head of Sustainability, Lisa Daniell, talks about their plans to become the most carbon neutral airline.

Student chaos: Schools use force on pupils '13 times a day'

About 0.2 per cent of children with extreme behaviours are "creating chaos" in schools.

How Karen Walker built a fashion empire

Karen Walker started her fashion brand with $100.

Focus: Daring rescue of attempted bridge jumper

A second was all it took for Jesse Harrison to bolt, in jandals, towards the Auckland Harbour Bridge railing during peak rush hour.

Air NZ's fight against plastic takes off

Airline's green chief on removing plastic and the ''race to the moon'' - electric planes.