Mark Ford

Traffic signal improvements in Auckland are offering drivers valuable time and fuel savings. Read More

Under-fire city councillors were kept in the dark about yesterday's announcement that a high-flying Auckland 'Mr Fix-it' has been headhunted to oversee the $2.2billion infrastructure rebuild programme. Read More

The man who led the reorganisation of local government in Auckland has been appointed to a key role in the rebuild of earthquake-hit Christchurch. Read More

Property damage was estimated at about $1 billion. Read More

In 1988, the West Coast hip-hop group N.W.A released a provocative song called "F**k tha Police," which stirred controversy and marked it as one of the most high-profile examples of tension between the black community in Los Angeles and authorities. Read More

Many a demographic is super-served throughout the year on the Philadelphia film festival calendar. Read More

As a 22-year-old white kid from New Jersey fresh out of college, Mark Ford encountered the Los Angeles riots of April 1992 the way most Americans did -- through journalist Bob Turr's striking helicopter footage of the violence at Florence and Normandie avenues. Read More

For anyone who lived through the 1992 L.A. riots that resulted after the beating of Rodney King, you will be completely transported back to the time when the entire country felt that justice had not been served, and unrest was at its peak. Read More