Auckland news
![Weight-loss drugs, sleep pills and P: Witnesses list drugs connected to Polkinghorne, wife](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_p.png?d=800)
Weight-loss drugs, sleep pills and P: Witnesses list drugs connected to Polkinghorne, wife
The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having strangled his wife then staged a suicide.
![Man with distinctive 'evil' face tattoo arrested after manhunt](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_p.png?d=800)
Man with distinctive 'evil' face tattoo arrested after manhunt
A warrant for the man's arrest was issued nearly two weeks ago.
Voices from the Pacific
![Academics: Sport dominated by Western regulations, excluding indigenous ways](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Academics: Sport dominated by Western regulations, excluding indigenous ways
OPINION: Three sports academics push for Māori and Pasifika arts at Olympics.
![Rheumatic fever and gout are painful ailments for Polynesians](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Rheumatic fever and gout are painful ailments for Polynesians
Academics join South Auckland community to find cures for painful ailments.
!['How could you do this?': Tipene Funerals apologises after bodies of prominent Samoans 'treated like rubbish'](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
'How could you do this?': Tipene Funerals apologises after bodies of prominent Samoans 'treated like rubbish'
A former funeral director at Tipene Funerals swindled her grieving clients.
Auckland Property news
![Fletcher's Iplex: leaky pipe class action launched in Australia](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Fletcher's Iplex: leaky pipe class action launched in Australia
Around 30,000 homes in Perth are thought to be involved.
!['Rent will continue' - Du Val to worried apartment landlord](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
'Rent will continue' - Du Val to worried apartment landlord
Around 500 people live in the high-rise.
!['What I learned': Why Ben Wilson converted offices to apartments](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
'What I learned': Why Ben Wilson converted offices to apartments
Several CBD office buildings in Auckland have been converted into apartments, hotels.
Auckland Sport news
More Auckland news
![Polkinghorne trial: ‘Something wasn't right' - Family friend describes 'unusual incident'](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Polkinghorne trial: ‘Something wasn't right' - Family friend describes 'unusual incident'
The Auckland eye surgeon is accused of having strangled his wife and staged a suicide.
![Pukekohe cafe blaze: Eleven fire trucks at scene](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Pukekohe cafe blaze: Eleven fire trucks at scene
Emergency services were alerted to the fire just after midnight.
!['What I learned': Why Ben Wilson converted offices to apartments](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
'What I learned': Why Ben Wilson converted offices to apartments
Several CBD office buildings in Auckland have been converted into apartments, hotels.
![Du Val Group in receivership: Why the FMA and police swooped, and what next?](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Du Val Group in receivership: Why the FMA and police swooped, and what next?
One increasingly worried subcontractor complained of being owed around $500,000.
![Auckland property developer placed into interim receivership, police at property](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
Auckland property developer placed into interim receivership, police at property
Around 120 investors put money into Du Val entities.
![It's official, this is the best hotel in New Zealand](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.nzherald.co.nz/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=800)
It's official, this is the best hotel in New Zealand
It's also New Zealand's first "five-Green-Star" hotel.