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

Heading down south by motorhome to the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow is a nostalgic, and pie-filled, journey for pilot Michael Walsh.

Jill Worrall continues her journey south through the Catlins, the remote coastal region that straddles Otago and Southland.

Two decades ago it was mostly only Otago and Southland locals who knew about the Catlins, but the secret's now out, writes Jill Worrall.

Danielle Wright takes her train-mad son on the historic Kingston Flyer for a unique history lesson.

Tame Iti and his colleagues weren't the only ones on trial for the past five weeks. The terrorism claims in the still-unresolved Urewera case have revealed deep divisions over Maori and Pakeha

This coastal area which straddles the Otago and Southland regions is home to penguins, sea lions, permanently wind-blown trees and an eye-opening petrified forest.