Giving up smoking is one of the easiest things a person can do.

New Zealand could be excused for having half an eye on events across the Tasman over the next couple of weeks.

Angela McCarthy finds a company helping women get back to work.

The rain came down in monsoon strength at the country's biggest Christian music festival yesterday.

Festival headliners Switchfoot are returning to the annual Christian music gathering after some musical soul-searching.

Touching operatic allegory parallels lives of man and beast.

Neighbours of a murdered Hamilton woman say authorities knew of tensions between her and her alleged killer, and should have acted sooner.

P-cooks are increasingly setting up P-labs in workplace carparks so staff can buy the drug during their tea breaks, a drug detection agency says.