Photos from Rhythm and Vines 2011, an annual three-day music festival held at Waiohika Estate Vineyard in Gisborne.

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.

A tornado has devastated a farming station near Gisborne, taking out sheds and injuring at least one farm dog believed to have been picked up and dumped. Craig Ferris "huddled in a ball" in the corner of his carport...

The bitterly cold southerly which hit New Zealand this week is retreating, but widespread frosts are taking its place.