Responsible for making events look cool, Michael Hodgson's favourite things are geared toward innovative design.

It's getting easier for darker skinned women to find makeup that suits, but equal choice is still a work in progress.

There's no magic wand couples can wave to be happy, it's hard work that does it, say relationship expert Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen LaKelly Hunt.

An Auckland restaurateur has joined forces with an incredibly strange film buff to bring local short films to a hungry audience.

A cosy evening out at a venue with a menu of a size to match.

From zombie killer to Norse god, Tim Balme has had a busy career, on both sides of the television camera. He tells Rebecca Barry about juggling these roles.

The Wellington Phoenix remains confident in their future, despite the Inland Revenue seeking to liquidate the company which owns the club.

A disqualified driver who killed two passengers as he fled from police in Auckland last year was today jailed for at least three years.

"Sugar, salt, fat," said Robert, as we tucked into the churros con chocolate at the Basque Kitchen and Bar. "You can't beat them."

The star of hit show Man Vs Wild is coming to New Zealand next month for two shows to raise money for the families of Pike River and the Wellington Children's Hospital.

Sonny Bill Williams will tomorrow partly make good on a promise he made after he ran out of gas on a country road last year.

A job ad for a "male nude handyman" is breaking employment law - but not because of the nudity, an employment lawyer says.

Food is an integral and symbolic part of Chinese New Year celebrations.

The man police accuse of murdering two people at a multi-million dollar Auckland mansion last month says he acted in self defence and "emphatically denies" murder charges, his lawyer says.