Every year a Navy ship is selected to lead the Auckland Anniversary Regatta. Loaded with VIPs and Navy crew, the vessel becomes the guard ship for the regatta and is the platform from which races are started.

Alison Shanks has stood on the dais to receive world championship and Commonwealth Games gold medals. But she remembers just as vividly standing at the helm of the Spirit of New Zealand.

Sir Peter Jackson has undergone surgery after being admitted to Wellington Hospital with acute stomach pains.

A jet aircraft carrying 115 people had to make an emergency landing at Dunedin airport this evening after a bird-strike incident.

Convicted murderer Stephen Hudson has filed private prosecutions against witnesses who gave evidence against him.

One of New Zealand's finest creations, Crown Lynn crockery, is being celebrated in a new exhibition. Viva meets some of its most passionate followers.

Supply of old-style net addresses is fast running out - but help is at hand.

A police sergeant was taken to hospital after allegedly being punched in the head a dozen times during an incident of mass disorder.

A sex offender supposed to be under constant monitoring was allegedly found in bed with a 14-year-old girl.