It's harder to define where a city's limits end than it is a region's, yet reasonably easy to define a local community both in terms of geography and interest.

The region has been buzzing this week with thousands of people in the Bay for the Horse of the Year.

Seems to me the more "civilised" we become, the less we appreciate the wild spaces around us.

An early morning flight to Auckland got off to a eerie start on Wednesday.

The furore over regional council investment company chief Andrew Newman's pay rise illumines a major flaw in current employment practice.

The story developing this week of a young Japanese girl admitted to hospital after being mauled by four dogs in Murupara has gripped the nation's conscience.

Environmental standards set by local government vary so widely from place to place you'd think the science underpinning the rules in one locale was completely different to the other.