It may be the butt of many a joke, but Colin Hogg can't wait to get back to the city Aucklanders love to hate.

A Cambridge horse trainer charged with illegally importing performance-enhancing drugs says the case is "a big misunderstanding".

Alexia Santamaria finds there is more than enough to keep both parents and kids happy on a day trip to Hamilton.

A council has gone to extreme lengths to create safer neighbourhoods by preventing home owners from building garages ahead of the house, and forcing more living on to the front yard with little privacy.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.

'Heaven knows what the offenders were planning to do with their loot.' Police were surprised at one of the items taken in a Halloween burglary.

The crime-fighting success of residents in Hamilton's Fairview Downs earned praise from the police, and one resident says he hopes the story inspires others to do the same.

Police are crediting members of a Hamilton community with the arrest of four burglars who were caught after being chased by neighbours, including one on a push bike.

Two ring-tailed lemur babies have been born to mother Yetta at Hamilton Zoo.