Graduates of local television dramas, soap operas and sitcoms combine their talents.

Experts have warned that Sydney is being invaded by funnel-webs, considered one of the world's most aggressive and poisonous spiders.

Air New Zealand is to increase the number of direct flights between Australia and Queenstown this winter.

The crew of a NZ trimaran harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean had to be rescued after their boat was allegedly rammed and sunk by a Japanese ship, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.