First the good news: Auckland have had a champion limited-overs cricket season.

The drummer for Dunedin’s cult indie band the Clean, Hamish Kilgour, tells Rebecca Barry about life in the Big Apple and how he remains Kiwi.

Still they come. Men and women with vision, courage, zeal and determination. They dream.

When wanting to impress visiting overseas wine buffs, I have trusty favourites that I pluck from the cellar and open with a good deal of confidence.

Boxing Day Fashions in the Field winner Meg Wilson is having another shot for the top title at this weekend's Derby Day.

Wine writer John Hawkesby takes a look back over a year of sipping to come up with his 12 best bottles.

Most people are in for a great summer weekend with high air pressure over the North Island and an advancing front in the South Island.

Recent wild growing conditions are posing challenges for winemakers across the globe.

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?