While summer continues to roll on, the fashionable tipple should still be rosé. No one is quite sure what is behind the rise and rise of this previously lowly ranked style, but it's popping up all over the place.

We are not being surrounded by aliens from outer space after all, but by PVC monsters.

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.

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

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.

United States news organisation CNN International has released its top 10 places to propose to a loved one on Valentine's Day.

Holding his only surviving daughter after a horror car crash, Donald Coulter says: "I thank my lucky stars I still have one. I still wish I had two."

Police have named a woman and her daughter killed in a crash today. A two-year-old girl also in the car was rescued.

Police searching for a missing Roxburgh man have found a body in the Clutha River.

A union will be appealing Burger King's decision to issue a final warning to a Dunedin employee for posting the message "real jobs don't underpay and overwork people like BK does" on her private Facebook page.

Kiwi crime queen Vanda Symon talks to Craig Sisterson about accidental heroines and playing with swords.

Three Dunedin police officers were injured in an attack last night, the second such incident in 24 hours.

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.

Cheaper calls may be at hand, but you'll probably still need two phones to get the best deals.

A "cowardly" man who attacked a Dunedin police officer - leaving him with concussion, bleeding to the face and bruising - is still at large. The officer was set upon by a passenger who was travelling in a car he stopped late last night.