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Focus: Council valuations could see rates soar in southern suburbs

Auckland council's property revaluations could lead to big rate increases in areas that are the least able to afford them.

Auckland property revaluation trends revealed

Auckland Council unveils the details of its 2017 property valuations

Focus: France selected to host RWC 2023

France have won the hosting rights to the 2023 World Cup, somehow managing to persuade a majority of voting members to go against the preferred bidder, South Africa.

Focus: World’s oldest dictator under house arrest

President Robert Mugabe, 93, and his wife are “safe and sound” after Zimbabwe’s military seized control of capital, Harare.

Shock RWC 2023 vote democracy in action

NZ rugby boss says Rugby World Cup 2023 vote was democracy in action.

Downfall of the world's oldest dictator

Mugabe: From political prisoner to violent guerrilla leader who became a brutal despot

Could you feed a family of four on just $89 a week?

An Auckland mother of three has laid her finances bare to bust the myth of poverty.

Focus: Could you feed a family of four on $89 a week?

An Auckland mother of three lays her finances bare to bust one of the biggest myths of poverty in New Zealand

Kai Pasifika brings the taste of the Pacific to Auckland

New restaurant Kai Pasifika brings the taste of the Pacific to Auckland

Focus: Quake victim's mother's first proper goodbye

Leila MacKinnon's daughter Jo-Anne was killed in the Kaikoura quake, one year on the 82 year old has finally been able to say her goodbyes.

One year on: Mother farewells daughter killed in Kaikoura quake

One year after the Kaikoura quake, a mother finally says goodbye to her daughter.

Museum captures new normal for Kaikoura

Quake photos and artefacts to go on show at museum.

Focus: Shane Jones reveals regional development plans

Are the Ports of Auckland set to become Ports of Northland?

Focus: Museum stands strong after quake

After a shaky start, Kaikoura Museum is about to re-open with a photography exhibition covering the days after the quake.

More Auckland cemeteries running out of room

Space running out at Helensville, Warkworth and Swanson cemeteries; Waikumete stretched.

Focus: Deadliest Quake of 2017

More than 400 dead, and rising, after 7.3 quake struck border region between Iraq and Iran.

Death toll rises for Iran earthquake

More than 400 people have died on the border of Iran and Iraq following an earthquake.

Focus: Kaikoura dawn ceremony

Kaikoura remembers the devastating quake one year on.