Hawkes Bay coastal residents are allowed to return home after high waves prompted evacuations.

Teenager Lydia Ward had her second close encounter with sharks yesterday - but this time she avoided being bitten.

The largest cruise ship ever to visit NZ, the Queen Mary 2, docks in Auckland tomorrow morning.

There's no mucking around when you go fishing in the Chathams.

In the end it was the bronze whaler that came off worse during a terrifying man-versus-shark encounter near Whitianga this week.

When you drive through the Awakino Gorge, you notice the sparkling stream down in the bed of the valley.

When Dianne Masters bought her yacht in the US, little did she know it was one of the most famous craft in New Zealand yachting history.