COMMENT: New board's action was the first step in turning around basket case franchise.

Today's top stories: NZ's record cocaine bust, schoolboys injured in classroom fire.

Today's biggest stories: change needed for health checks, push to immediately ban boxing.

Today's top stories: touching reunion for ill father, sausage sizzles hit a snag.

Today's biggest stories: sleepless night for Pike families, sugar babies told to pay tax.

Today's biggest stories: teachers begin strikes, churches included in child-abuse inquiry.

Today's biggest stories: woman attacked by stranger, calls for action on electricity

Today's top stories: shock admission over Karel Sroubek, flooding forces road closures.

Today's biggest stories: a sharp drop in unemployment, teachers to vote on pay offer.

Today's biggest stories: PM criticises Sroubek case, Jo Morgan on surviving an avalanche.

Today's biggest stories: an inquiry into Sroubek residency, and NZ targeted by fake news.

New podcast 'The Front Page' – keeping you up to date with the biggest news of the day.

Today's biggest stories: a quake rattles much of central NZ, political spats heat up.

Aucklanders will today get a glimpse of Prince Harry and Meghan at the viaduct.

It has become clear who will be playing for the All Blacks against Japan this weekend.

Today's biggest stories: A worsening teacher shortage, and a glamorous royal visit.

COMMENT: My generation lived through a golden period of New Zealand history.