Stories by Felix Walton

Some Aucklanders are lifting their houses to avoid damage from future floods.

Auckland residents say they are afraid to go out at night after two suspected homicides in the city on the same day.

A central Auckland high school was forced to close early after a major sewage leak damaged carpets and walls.

A New Zealander on holiday in Maui says the wildfires devastating the Hawaiian island are unlike anything he has seen before.

Crime, housing and transport were the hot topics at Wednesday night's political debate in Auckland Central.

Aucklanders are worried a new harbour crossing will cost too much and take too long. Audio

A 'gaming laboratory' hopes to find out if rolling dice and slaying dragons is good for your brain. Audio

White Island Tours told a court it paid $500,000 a year for access to Whakaari - and helicopter companies also paid to conduct tours on the island.

The 2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption which killed 22 people was impossible to predict, a leading volcanologist told the court.

The company managing a small volcanic island was profiting in the millions before an eruption killed 22 people in 2019, court hears.

Thursday's meeting ended without a decision, despite a partial backdown from the mayor on selling shares in the city's airport.

The director of an Auckland virtual reality studio expects Apple's new gadget to be a game-changer. Audio

A dour mood hung above this year's Stormwater New Zealand Conference, as attendees reflected on months of flooding and severe weather.

Though Wayne Brown has promised to fund the Citizens Advice Bureau, he did not confirm if existing funding would be reduced. Audio

The high level of profitability was making people question the level of service they were getting, says Consumer NZ chief executive Jon Duffy.

A Christchurch-developed video game about fishing is making waves overseas.

The sequencing shows the strain is likely to be covered by the vaccine, but one leading vaccinologist says Aotearoa has "dropped the ball badly" on vaccinating pregnant people.

A petition with 20,000 signatures was handed to Auckland Council in a last-ditch effort to halt budget cuts to the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Video games could be our next billion-dollar industry, but Australian tax incentives threaten to stunt growth of the sector in New Zealand.

Watercare chief executive Dave Chambers said the hike was unavoidable - and locals appear reluctantly in agreement.

Tempers flared at a packed meeting when council officials did not have the answers Muriwai residents wanted.

Residents of a rural Hawke's Bay town cheered for repair crews arriving to restore their power after more than two weeks in a blackout after Cyclone Gabrielle.

The numbers of people seeking aid at Civil Defence centres in Auckland has dropped, but plenty of families are still displaced.

The sun finally came out over Northland on Wednesday after the region was rocked by Cyclone Gabrielle - but some residents were still being urged to evacuate.

The sun may finally be out, but the crisis is not over for Auckland residents displaced by last month's floods. Audio