'I'm just the vessel'

19 min ago Adventurer Graeme Dingle knighted for bettering thousands of young Kiwi lives.

4:44 PM Maythem Radhi has one last chance to avoid extradition, or improve its terms.

4:36 PM Police say they won't charge an Auckland pastor who said gay couples marrying deserved a bullet in the head.

4:16 PM Generations of children have played pirates in a moored boat. Now the council says it's a hazard and must be removed.

4:15 PM Byron Bentley, principal of high-achieving Macleans College for nearly two decades, is departing at the end of the year.

The Hibiscus and Bays Local Board has been opposing the sale of a car park for more than a year.

Police are calling on the public's help to identity a young man beaten with a baseball bat in Auckland

Three generations, one sport, one west Auckland arena and no thoughts of leaving.

It's the richest harness racing event in the country yet there are only 25 nominations for the New Zealand Trotting Cup.

Fencibles can win a football title, and the Hornets have sting left for rugby league finals - it's game-on this Saturday.

Auckland Admirals up against it to upset Southern Stampede in NZIHL finals.