We've rounded up some of the best events happening all over the country this long weekend.

Two UK honeymooners lost everything after their campervan was broken into in Auckland, but all they want back is their wedding photos.

Having led a lonely childhood, Lesley Pearse knows what it is to seek a better life. Now she is helping women to help others. She tells Stephen Jewell how.

It's that time of year again when we're compelled to buy a sentimental card for our loved ones and go out for a set-menu meal - or wallow in our singledom.

The New Zealand pinot noir movement is gathering pace and the great and good of the wine world jetted in from Singapore, Stockholm and San Francisco last week to experience Central Otago's take on the grape.

Liquor bans are in place and police numbers are being boosted in many of the traditional New Year's Eve hot spots.

A climber is reported to have been killed and a paraglider has spinal injuries after accidents on two South Island mountains today.

Environmental artist Martin Hill says he tends to get more pleasure from personal experiences than from tangible objects.

Allowing brothels to operate near playgrounds, schools or churches in central Otago resort towns is "unacceptable", a lobby group says.