As people relaxed at Easter weekend, Michael Sheen endured incarceration in a police cell, slept rough up a mountain and was crucified, then resurrected in front of hundreds of onlookers.

Organisers of Auckland's Royal Easter Show are promising to "get it right next year" after complaints the event is overpriced.

The retail workers' union has scorned a bill to allow shops to open on Good Friday.

As the retail workers' union talks about how its members cherish their time off during holidays such as Easter, some shops are opening today in defiance of trading laws.

A discrepancy in public holiday laws has left New Zealand workers with one less day off than their Australian counterparts this weekend.

Parliament has unanimously passed a bill creating a public holiday for the Christchurch earthquake commemoration, although some MPs think next Friday is too soon.

What impact will extending the 90 day employment trial period have on recruitment?

More than 65 per cent of New Zealanders think public holidays which fall on a weekend should be transferred to a Monday, according to a Research New Zealand survey.

The public should have a say on whether public holidays that fall on the weekend should be "mondayised", a Labour MP says.

For local tugboat enthusiast Baden Pascoe, there is something honourable and magical about a vessel that has been a workhorse most of its life.

The Auckland Anniversary regatta is now 171 years old. The Herald on Sunday's Anniversary Day magazine is dedicated to the regatta and all those who make it happen and who participate in it.

Voluntourism catching on with holidaymakers and companies.

Size definitely doesn't matter when it comes to radio-controlled yachts.

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

Is the Kiwi love affair with roughing it going through a tough patch? Lisa Bradley reports.

They are the grand old vessels of the sea - the ships of old, restored to full glory to sail Auckland's harbours once again, like they did more than a century ago.

The Labour Party will try to force the Government's hand to 'Mondayise' Anzac Day and Waitangi Day if they fall on a weekend by introducing a member's bill to make the change.

On the beach, at the bach or in deserted cities - we're not doing much at all.

Chilly bin bandits at popular holiday spots have shown they have some heart.