New Zealand will host July's Davis Cup tennis tie with the Philippines at Hawera in the Taranaki.

Today's fatal police shooting near Napier is the seventh in just over a decade, since Waitara man Steven Wallace's death in 2000.

Police have released images of two men suspected of trying to kidnap a 22-year-old community probation worker.

Winston Aldworth looks back an a fantastic weekend of music in New Plymouth.

It's the flags you see first. WOMAD, held annually at Taranaki's beautiful Brooklands Park, is littered with them.

In the high-stakes game of oil exploration New Zealand is frontier country.

Here's more to add to your gig diary - though you'd be in a fairly unique demographic if you were after tickets to all of this lot.

Chris Liddell writes on the future of philanthropy and how we can get involved.

Paige Hareb, New Zealand's top woman pro-surfer has joined forces with Subaru of New Zealand in a car deal.

World music worked hard for its place in the sun, says pioneer Simon Emerson. By Paula Yeoman.

One person has been arrested and four remain on a ship which Greenpeace boarded to prevent it from being unloaded in New Plymouth.

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.

X marks the spot for eager youngsters in our treasure trove of fossil shellfish and dinosaur bones, writes Alex Tully.