As Ireland prepare to face the All Blacks at Eden Park today, Dean Parker recalls how the New Zealand battle cry influenced one of their greatest writers

Police have arrested 150 people for drug offences in a two-month drug operation..

Tame Iti and his colleagues weren't the only ones on trial for the past five weeks. The terrorism claims in the still-unresolved Urewera case have revealed deep divisions over Maori and Pakeha

A claim the East Coast could become "the Texas of the south" is an overstatement, a local oil exploration expert says.

Jamie Morton and Alan Gibson arrive at the North Island's most easterly point.

Jamie Morton suffers a bruised rear-end and discovers 'hard-luck camping'.

Canadian oil company Apache has been talking up the prospects for onshore oil finds on the North Island's East Coast and is trying to play concerns about fracking and the local environment.

The uncle of a drowned toddler asks if the tragedy would have occurred if the local council was pushed harder to erect a fence.

We've rounded up some of the best events happening all over the country this long weekend.