Douglas Tompkins, the co-founder of the North Face and Esprit who spent the last two decades of his life to preserve Chile's Patagonia, died yesterday.

The BBC has admitted that footage of a volcanic eruption featured in its blockbuster natural history series Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise was faked.

As the weather begins to warm up, let's relax and fantasize about some of the best pools the world has to offer.

Immigration admits it made mistakes after a Chilean woman was sent home on the suspicion she would earn money babysitting her 3-year-old niece.

Air New Zealand will shut down Dreamliners completely every three months after tests by Boeing exposed problems.

LAN is optimistic about growth prospects at home and in Australia, despite sluggish economic conditions in both places.

Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano has erupted for the first time in nearly half a century, spewing a giant funnel of ash 10km into the sky.

The man who was molested by Phillip Smith as a child, and who watched Smith murder his father, says he can now carry on with his life "without having that fear over my shoulders".

Phillip John Smith used his time behind bars to gain university qualifications and run a business - making the money he used to flee New Zealand.

Mario Sepulveda is weeping. Amid the clatter and din of the building site where he works in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Sepulveda's voice can hardly be heard as it comes in great heaving sobs.

After scaling three of the world's highest peaks from sea-level, Auckland sports teacher Dave Williams is looking forward to a second crack at "one that got away."

Trekking through Puyehue National Park in Chile tests Derek Cheng's tenacity.

If you're planning to trade Chilean stocks during the World Cup, forget it.

An activist in Chile has burnt documents representing NZ$580 million worth of student debt during a protest at Universidad del Mar.

A huge fire has engulfed a Chilean port city registered as a World Heritage site for its historic collection of wooden buildings and railways.

It is not illegal to kill an animal in New Zealand as long as it is done humanely, which includes bludgeoning bobby calves with hefty objects, Mid Canterbury SPCA inspector John Keeley says.

A New Zealand dairy company is reportedly being investigated by Chilean authorities over allegations it inhumanely slaughtered thousands of calves it couldn't use for milk production.

In 1834, Darwin noted the astonishing array of potatoes on Chiloé, the genetic source of 90 per cent of the world's varieties. But the island off Chile has been slow to cash in on its gastronomic heritage – until now.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake has rocked central Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital and nervous people to run out into the streets.

Four Chilean men have been convicted of first-degree murder for beating a gay man to death and carving swastikas into his body.

President Sebastian Pinera yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende by urging Chileans never to forget the events of September 11, 1973, that launched a bloody 17-year dictatorship.

A story of remarkable human endurance in the snow-covered Andes has taken a sombre turn.

As more Kiwis look to South America for adventure, Karen Phelps compiles a bucket list for the continent.

Fonterra's Chilean subsidiary is an example of what the co-operative would like to achieve in the rest of the world, says former general manager Jose Miguel Porraz.