Edward Rooney charts a course to the bottom of South Island and across to Australia on one of the busiest cruise ships afloat.

Pan Pac-owned Pacific Wood Products (PWP) in Napier is to close with the loss of 41 jobs.

Two brothers have been jailed for their roles in stealing a $37,000 Harley Davidson motorbike in a case of "bare-faced banditry".

A Napier teen who sent 187 text messages claming she was being kept in the boot of a car sparked a twin-city manhunt.