Exercise, fresh air and new perspectives await those who venture on to Auckland's off-road cycleways, writes Kirsten Warner.

The family of young mother Jackie Allister is dumbfounded at her murder.

Blood-soaked carpet and household items have been removed from the home of an Auckland couple found dead after the woman's 14-year-old sister called 111.

Police were this afternoon continuing inquiries into events leading to the deaths of a man and a woman overnight after a reported domestic incident.

Get off the couch. You know you'll feel better, especially when you can come home to leftovers and a lie down.

A man was seriously injured yesterday in a house fire, caused by what authorities say was a P-lab explosion.

Need to blow the cobwebs off you and your pooch? Let him loose in these dog-friendly parks around Auckland.

Thorough upgrades to a well-run party venue have paid off, writes Colin Taylor.

A high school after-ball party with a van-load of alcohol was busted by police and liquor licensing inspectors in an early morning raid today.

The NZ teacher crushed after crawling into an east Sussex wheelie bin following a night out earlier tried to share a taxi with two women he met at a pub, an inquest into his death hears.