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

Julie Symons and her fiancé take to the air in magnificent flying machines.

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.

Live At the Islands draws some big music names to support conservation work.

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.