Rural Coromandel was so much fun Alexia Santamaria's kids want a return trip — immediately.

Dead fish, most of them snapper, have washed up on beaches in one of the most beautiful and popular holiday spots in the country.

Mercury Bay's easy waters blink against a high sun and a boatie makes an unhurried return between Tower Rock and Centre Island, a good haul of snapper likely onboard.

New Year's Eve celebrations are in full swing today, with music festivals, parties and fireworks displays happening in all parts of the country.

Fifty years ago, a teacher in Coromandel town predicted to her student that their charming settlement would one day be a suburb of Auckland.

So you've been tasked with organising a hen's party ... one option is fleeing the city and swapping novelty cakes and forced craziness for a weekend of fun and pampering.

Classic NZ coastline, lush bush and old-fashioned holiday camp fun - Danielle Wright takes a campervan tour around the Coromandel.

Two men found in a clandestine P lab on the outskirts of Whitianga on Saturday have been named.

Police have launched an investigation after the bodies of two men were found in a cave in the Coromandel Peninsula.

At Waihi Beach, Elisabeth Easther discovered that it is possible for the busy minded to unwind, if placed in the right hands.

A trip to Whitianga is an adventure with wheels like these, writes Estelle Sarney.

As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.

As mining makes a political comeback Catherine Masters finds strong local opposition to the prospect of a Northland gold rush