The name of an Australian woman who died after suffering head injuries in a fall on to rocks has been released.

What does our food say about us as Kiwis? In a five-day series, Jamie Morton and photographer Alan Gibson head out to discover what’s on the plate in our summer places.

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year celebrations, Joelle Thomson investigates North Island walks for you to check out on your holidays.

Andrew Alderson stays at a classic Kiwi cottage on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Susan Buckland gets in some bird-watching at Miranda's sanctuary.

The owners and operators of Pacific Harbour Lodge on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula at Tairua want to sell the land and buildings as a tourism investment asset and negotiate a 30-year lease with the new owners so they can continue running it.

A 70-year-old man died and two people received moderate injuries after a crash between a motorbike and a car near Thames.

Two abandoned Christchurch houses have been seriously damaged in suspicious fires early today.

Need a cure for summertime blues? This patch of coast has the remedy year-round, writes Elisabeth Easther.

A dispute between the Pauanui land owner and a golf club about a covenant on the property has gone to the Court of Appeal.

Clear skies are about to surrender to a soggy weekend - with rain starting to fall tonight in Northland before spreading tomorrow to Auckland and the Coromandel.

Climb aboard a carriage to appreciate a potter's decades-long labour of love.

This hand-laid, three-kilometre-long railway snakes its way through rugged Coromandel bush terrain to a tower that affords wonderful views out to the Hauraki Gulf.

For further information see: drivingcreekrailway.co.nz

A man was in a serious condition in Thames Hospital last night after his car burst into flames following a crash in Coromandel.

Small town New Zealand does wonderful and whacky to keep up our winter spirits.

A man charged over a violent kidnapping and a daring escape from Auckland’s central police station will face trial.

A judge ordered an American man who caused a fatal crash on the Coromandel Peninsula to pay $5500 for emotional harm and told him "this will remain with you forever".

An American man was due to fly home with his wife the day after the vehicle he was driving crossed the centre line, hitting and killing an Auckland woman.

Danielle Wright discovers clubs happy to welcome you in out of the cold.

A man was trapped in his crushed vehicle about 200m down a steep bank for about three hours before he was spotted, emergency services say.

An alleged kidnapper who escaped police custody in Auckland has appeared in court this morning handcuffed and flanked by two police officers.

Police hunting a suspected kidnapper who escaped custody are door-knocking his known associates.