A tough four days is underway for the country’s leading softball players as the national fastpitch championships got underway at North Shore’s Rosedale Park today. The leading contenders in the men’s competition are Auckland, defending title holders Wellington, Canterbury, Hutt Valley and hosts North Harbour. In the women’s section, four-time title winners Hutt Valley and last year’s beaten [...]

All the work on the tunnels on the Northern Motorway near Puhoi has long since been completed yet at the northbound and southbound entrances there are still a few signs with “80km/h – Temporary”. So now you have to reduce speed temporarily from 100 to 80 to go all of 200m through the tunnel and [...]

This photo captures the mood of the day. While spring is on the door step the rain continues for what has been a very wet winter. Auckland has lived up to its reputation of  ‘four seasons in one day’. Our photographer Goina has been out and about with her camera and took this photo as [...]