NIWA's latest seasonal outlook predicts temperatures in all regions are likely to be above average from October to December.

Fusing wine and artistic licence is for the people, writes Joelle Thomson.

Cape Kidnappers is a rugged, chaotic and whiffy bird-lovers' paradise, writes Paul Rush.

No less than 18 All Blacks are about to start filtering back into the national provincial championship.

New Zealand's analogue television service will be switched off progressively nationwide between September 2012 and late 2013, the Government said today.

The army is investigating how a box of ammunition fell off the back of one of its trucks and was run over by a car.

Hamish Keith is an arts and social commentator.

Michael Foley is director of a business that believes so firmly in broadband infrastructure that it has done away with the other kind - as a "company without walls", it has no premises.

When Brian Mackie brought his translation service from Britain to New Zealand in 2003, fast internet access was essential and shouldn't have been a problem.

A legal loophole has allowed an unregistered teacher back in the classroom after having sex with a 16-year-old student.

A second big earthquake in three days sent lower North Island residents scrambling for cover.

The Hawkes Bay was struck by a magnitude-5.3 earthquake this afternoon.

Hawkes Bay and the Wairarapa have been hit by two quakes this morning but there have been no reports of damage.

Slips and surface flooding are causing havoc for motorists in the lower North Island as heavy rain and gale force winds sweep the region.

Inexperience hasn't stopped Alison Wong from winning literary gold, writes Nicky Pellegrino.

Coroner David Crerar has agreed with police that Napier gunman Jan Molenaar's response to a police search was totally disproportionate to the seriousness of the incident.