Top sommelier Jean-Marie Pratt brings his global quest for tasty tipples Downunder.

Memorabilia, a plane and even a cat comes with the sale, writes Colin Taylor.

A massive slip that has cut off road access to 18 houses north of Gisborne has been described as "nature at its best".

Moko the dolphin, who thrilled and sometimes unsettled swimmers with his playfulness and imposing physical size, has been found dead.

East Coast Maori will light fires tomorrow in a symbolic protest against potential oil drilling by Brazilian giant Petrobras.

Queen's Birthday weekend has seen a drop in the overall number of crashes, with police trumpeting their zero tolerance approach to speeding as a factor.

The first person to be killed on the roads this holiday weekend was "a good mummy who loved her kids".

The captain of a fishing trawler befriended by Moko reckons the tunes of AC/DC might be part of the allure.