There was only one thing that mildly irked Joyce Irving when she got her performance schedule for A Midsummer Night's Dream: she wouldn't appear every night.

Gameplanet unveils its most anticipated games for 2015.

The child injury prevention service of Starship Children's Health and Auckland Council rangers have come up with a list of the city's safest, child-friendliest, parks for the sunshine months

Harbour views, sunny spaces, public events and safer, greener places for kids to play could all be part of the Auckland waterfront's future.

Another week in exile for Adam Thomson, another stamp in his passport. The latest is that of the British Embassy, following his journey to London where he has joined the Barbarians in their exclusive Park Lane hotel.

Unlike video games that had spectacular success and then fizzled Minecraft is a create-it-yourself platform that has staying power.

Cats are cuter than babies and dogs when it comes to the popularity of videos, new research shows.

I'm sure if MacGyver had had a smartphone this would have been the plot of at least one episode of the TV show. Scientists in rural Tanzania used their smartphone as an improvised microscope to diagnose schoolchildren with intestinal worm infections.

Ask David Taylor the differences between men's and women's tennis and there's a short and long answer. "It's a different sport," he says.

The brothers of Adeaze tell Scott Kara why it took seven years to follow up their debut album.

Actor Laurel Devenie inhabits the world of one of New Zealand's earliest female pioneers in a play inspired by her memoirs. Dionne Christian reports.

Next weekend sees the Auckland champs of the little known sport of disc golf. Similar in many ways to traditional golf, the frisbee-based sport is gaining in popularity as a fun way of competing in some of the country's best parks.

There are three simple rules to ensure that every time you buy a really good bottle of NZ wine you can be assured of absolute quality.

Opshop's Jason Kerrison says their third, and best, album is a rebirth, despite its apocalyptic title. The band tell Scott Kara about their different direction.

One way or another, Sydneysiders will be introduced to rugby - and New Zealand - later this year.

The great question of our modern times is, surely, where do people from Amsterdam go for their stag nights?

Jill Worrall visits the DMZ and finds tensions heating up.