A report to Auckland City Mayor Dick Hubbard challenges the council to be bold and imaginative in setting tough targets to achieve international status as a sustainable city. The Mayoral Task Force on Sustainable Development has also called on the council to lead by example.

Two significant management appointments have recently been announced within one of Harcourts’ most successful and largest franchises, the Harcourts Mana-Kapiti-Horowhenua group in Wellington.

Every now and then Auckland gets an absolutely perfect day and we had just one of those days for the fifth event in the Structured Finance sponsored Stroke & Stride Series.

Kim Clijsters pulled out of the Open Gaz de France in Paris on Wednesday because of a bad hip. Clijsters said she wants to be fit to play at the Diamond Games on Feb. 12-18 in Antwerp - her last tournament in Belgium before retiring at the end of the year. "Unfortunately I will have to give the tournament in Paris a bye," she said Wednesday on her Web site. "Otherwise I would endanger my ...

DEFENDING team champions Seramenti PVC Diquigiovanni have been hit by a double whammy in the build-up to Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL), but they still have an eye on the overall title.

Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team - Camp Photo Gallery 1 Its January and Lance and the lads of Discovery Channel return to Solvang, California to ride among the coastal foothills and California Oaks. Greg Parks was there to take some photos of the team as they prepare bikes and riders for the Season.

BERLIN, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- German cyclist and former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has agreed to offer state prosecutors in his native land a DNA sample to end doping rumors.

PARIS, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Kim Clijsters, ranked No. 4 in the world, said a hip injury will force her to miss next week's Open Gaz de France tennis tournament in Paris.

British cyclist Bradley Wiggins hopes to fulfil a childhood dream by wearing the yellow jersey when the Tour de France comes to England this year.

The discipline of physical education class paid off Saturday for 12-year-old Kenneth Smith, who won Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center’s 5K run. “We have a very talkative P.E. class, and when we talk, our teacher makes us run around the track,” Smith said.