NZ shares were mixed yesterday as investors cast forward to next month's earnings season, and as regional markets mulled this week's Federal Reserve meeting.

SkyCity Entertainment Group has begun its A$350m ($370m) Adelaide redevelopment, reshaping and refurbishing areas in the historic railway station it leases.

New Zealand shares fell yesterday as the market joined a region-wide decline, and was paced by retailers after the Warehouse Group joined Hallenstein Glassons in issuing a profit warning.

Shark fin remains on the dinner menu at Auckland's SkyCity casino, at $70 for a small serving, despite assurances to the contrary.

Shan Inglis is now in the sights of Wellington man Graham McCready, who is considering laying a private prosecution against her over her husband's hotel upgrades and freebies.

Charging documents for the private prosecution against embattled Auckland Mayor Len Brown have now been delivered to the city's district court.

Auckland's embattled mayor has a new date - with a courtroom - as a private prosecution is brought against him today for accepting hotel freebies.

Revelations that SkyCity casino is caught up in an alleged international crime syndicate are unsurprising the Green Party says.

David Cunliffe has come under pressure to reveal whether a Labour-led Government would tear up National's pokies-for-convention centre deal with SkyCity.

Labour's leader David Cunliffe says the PM's claims that Labour has promised SkyCity it won't revoke the convention centre deal have been made up.

Australian and New Zealand expansion will transform SkyCity Entertainment Group into a very different business in five years, shareholders have been told.

Mayor Len Brown is trying to rewrite history over his support for the SkyCity pokies-convention centre deal, says mayoral challenger John Minto.

Approval for smoking in SkyCity's high-roller lounge may be stubbed out after it was challenged in the High Court.

SkyCity's proposal to light up another smoker-friendly gambling area has been stubbed out.

SkyCity has bought a "floating palace" to entertain high rollers - but insists no gambling will be allowed on board.

A Chinese woman involved in a gambling scam with her ex-boyfriend and a casino worker that stole more than $50,000 has avoided a jail sentence but will be deported.

SkyCity Entertainment Group is eyeing a Manila casino opportunity but has stepped away from Gold Coast plans.

A group of 20 Asian gamblers left SkyCity's Auckland casino without paying a $2.4 million debt, and it's thought they've hit other casinos.

TVNZ considered abandoning its Auckland national headquarters to make way for SkyCity Entertainment Group's $402 million international convention centre.

The profits and boom in visitor numbers from SkyCity's proposed convention centre have already been built into Auckland Council's accounts.

Approval for a VIP smoking area at Auckland's SkyCity casino has prompted a High Court challenge over testing methods.

A State sector financial whiz hired to check SkyCity's sums attacked the basis underpinning the "independent" report used by the Government to justify the convention centre deal.