A dozen Dunedin bars want to extend their opening hours over Easter weekend.

The video demonstrates some tips and tricks to make easter safer for little ones. Video / Tiny Hearts via Instagram

PM John Key has poured cold water on the idea of allowing holidays that fall on the weekends to be taken on another day.

Today is the last public holiday for New Zealanders until late April - but even then you're missing out.

Now it seems there is a risk that employees could lose an entitlement to public holidays that fall during a closedown period

Some 2000 metal and manufacturing workers have negotiated a one-off holiday in 2011 to make up for missed public holidays.

A Holden attempting to overtake at high speed became airborne as it crossed lanes moments before crashing, killing two, including a baby girl.

The Easter road toll was the worst in 16 years after a seriously injured cyclist had her life support turned off overnight, taking the number of deaths to 10.

At least 20 people are in hospitals and dozens have suffered other injuries after a horror Easter weekend on the roads.

'Traditional' feasts are easily tailored to our own seasons.

An Auckland church says its Easter billboard was vandalised because of a disagreement over Jesus' knowledge of his own fate.

The Department of Labour will consider prosecuting 38 retailers after 19 were caught trading on Good Friday and another 19 on Easter Sunday.

Two double-fatalities and the death of a baby pushed the Easter road toll to nine last night.

An war of words between the Catholic and Protestant churches culminated yesterday in an apology from the Archbishop of Canterbury.