Some holidays are hard work, but, as Danielle Wright finds out, that can be the point.

Clementine Benjamin and Lewis Wallace are young, in love, and expecting. Clem, 25, thought she didn't want kids so when she fell pregnant after a few months with Lewis, it came as a shock.

Snoop Dogg, Lion or Zilla? The big question hanging over the Big Day Out headliner's sideshow tonight seemed to be exactly which version of the hip-hop chameleon would show up.

Auckland bus drivers have been given a taste of road rage from a new perspective yesterday - the handlebars of a fleet of hire bikes.

NZ's High Commissioner to the UK is still living in a $390k-a-year rented home in one of London's most upmarket districts while the official residence is for sale.

Day two at the wheel and I've had my first minor incident - with a pedestrian, not a cyclist, writes Martin Johnston.

Two early morning fires deliberately lit at an Auckland school and church may have been started by the same people, police say.

A young Kiwi is to get a taste of what it's like to work for one of the coolest companies on the planet.

Mandy and Clair Cordo share the hard lessons they have learned on their journeys in this third story on love in the 21st century.

This week, Herald health reporter and commuter cyclist Martin Johnston will drive to work for a motorist's view - five of his colleagues who usually drive, will bike.

Minor parties are likely to play a central role in this year's election campaign, but the 2014 election year could be the year of the 'micro party', writes Bryce Edwards.

A number of people from across southern and western parts of both islands are asking this one question – “what has happened to summer?”. With highs struggling to reach even the low teens for some South Island areas, along with a fair bit of cloud for western places including Auckland, some are wondering when Summer will truly kick off. The good news is that hotter weather is coming – the bad news is that we still see a changeable ‘spring-like’ pattern for the rest of the month for some areas in the south.

An official Auckland Transport survey reveals the horrifying number of red-light runners at some of the city's busiest intersections - and most were cyclists.

About 10,000 cyclists a year are stopped and fined by police for biking without a helmet.

Hackers are using Kiwis' email accounts to send out thousands of spam messages, and Telecom admits it still doesn't know the cause or scale of the problem.

A fundraising concert for opponents of a planned Waiheke Island marina has been lauded as "Woodstock without the nakedness" by organiser John Hawkesby.

It's fair to say the lads are not traditionally keen birdwatchers, especially when enjoying their summer holiday break.

Words can hardly express the harm inflicted on a 9-year-old boy in Hamilton this week by someone who gave him enough alcohol to get very drunk.

Troubled supercook Nigella Lawson is still sweet with the Kiwi choc-maker that used her in its television advertising.

Do you remember your wedding day? The birth of your first child?

In the first of a seven-part series, Simon Collins talks to a couple who tried total freedom - but decided they needed to invent their own rules

Closed schools with rateable values of more than $42m have not been sold - amid concerns vandalism and neglect have turned boarded-up grounds into "rotting corpses".

2014 is less than a fortnight old and we've already been given two reasons to gnaw our fingernails over the future of civilisation as we know it, writes Paul Thomas.

A teen with severe chest pains died after an ambulance took an hour to get him to a hospital 10km away - and only after his father insisted he be taken there.

Of 8,001 beneficiaries sent for jobs requiring drug testing, only 22 tested positive or refused to take tests, a result that has been greeted as a victory by the Social Development Minister.

Whatever you do, never, ever attempt to feed a moa, warns Toby Manhire. The domesticated varieties might only bite you. The feral roadside moa, however, can be deadly.