Stories by Amy Williams

Melanoma survivor Joyanne Lovatt says her right leg has been a constant reminder of her battle with cancer.

Auckland's new mayor had wanted the deputy prime minister and other senior officials work alongside city councillors on key issues - but it was turned down.

The government's strategy to reduce road deaths and injuries failed to meet all but one of its targets with breath testing and reducing speed limits lagging the most.

Auckland's major events calendar looks alarmingly empty from 2024 and the city's culture and economic agency says it urgently needs to find $20 million a year to start filling it.

Auckland Council's cultural and economic development agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited says it is short of nearly $20 million to attract visitors to the city.

Jesse Kempson is appealing two sentences he received after killing Grace Millane, arguing two women exaggerated their experiences with him.

Just one person has applied for New Zealand residency through a new visa category that targets the rich.

Age Concern says it is nonsense for Auckland Council to suggest dozens of its flats for the elderly have been vacant because of the pandemic.

A digger-driving stevedore from Tauranga has paved the way for port workers to get better conditions, after years of legal battles.

More than a third of 150 flats Auckland Council has repurchased across 14 villages sit vacant, and the council has run out of funds to refurbish them.

The deputy Solicitor General says a rapist's sentence of nine months' home detention is manifestly inadequate and there has been a miscarriage of justice.

The mother of a man who died after being left face-down in a police cell with an incorrectly fitted spit hood covering his face says a coroner's inquest will give her family some closure.

Former National MP Jami-Lee Ross has been cleared of fraud charges over political donations in part because the judge agreed a sense of betrayal and mental breakdown could have led him to lie.

The pain at the pump is expected to worsen over coming months as petrol companies pass on price hikes from a cut in global oil production and sanctions on Russian marine oil tankers.

Auckland commuters have been slow to return to public transport with many still working from home at least part of the week, unwilling to risk a service that is still too hit and miss for many…

Covid-19 restrictions have eased and the border is open - it is the summer Auckland has been waiting for, but there is a big hole in the promotions budget.

A Consumer New Zealand investigation has found some rental property agencies are collecting unnecessary, and in some cases potentially illegal information, from prospective tenants.

The Ministry of Education made the decision while awaiting its own order for air purifiers to arrive in the country.

Workers who deliver hundreds of tonnes of Gib to building sites across Auckland each day are striking for better pay.

A seven-week trial over alleged concealed political donations that took three years to reach the High Court in Auckland is drawing to a close today.

The High Court in Auckland has heard how several defendants in a trial over alleged concealed political donations claimed not to be aware of electoral disclosure rules.

A defence lawyer for a businessman at the centre of a political donations trial has told the court his client is not a fraudster and did not conceal his identity as the Crown alleges.

A lengthy trial over alleged concealed political donations is drawing to a close, with the defence due to start its closing statements today.

Thousands of school kids are getting a taste of literary life and what it takes to be an author at the Auckland Writers Festival this week.

The local Korean community is shocked there is a likely link between the deaths of two children and a migrant from their home country.