The impacts of the global financial crisis hit are ingrained in our communities.

If you don't have tasty feijoas to harvest, odds are your neighbour does, if you ask nicely.

Grow some colourful snacks in your garden, says Janice Marriott.

An Auckland woman used practical tricks for extra space in the smallest room.

A pint-sized namesake of rocker Axl Rose and his identical twin brother have fought the odds and survived. Newborns Axel and Kyan Crossley-Coe suffer from a rare syndrome that affects just 5 to 10 per cent of identical twins. About one in 2

A con-artist has taken thousands of dollars from Northland shops in a sophisticated Eftpos scam. Police say the scam - involving a fake courier - is likely to have been used elsewhere in New Zealand

People visiting the Kerikeri Basin near the Stone Store could come face-to-face with a sign warning them the water is polluted.

A shirtless Far North Mayor Wayne Brown with a body that looks suspiciously like Dan Carter's. The Mona Lisa in a judge's wig and a bikini.

A man who admitted more than 20 drug charges, and was found guilty of a toddler's manslaughter, has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years.

A jury in the Whangarei trial of drug dealer Kyle Skerten has found him guilty of the manslaughter of his 15-month-old stepson, but not guilty of murder.

A 15-month-old boy could have suffered fatal head injuries after using his mattress to bounce out of his cot, a murder trial has been told.