Taranaki handed Southland their first loss of the ITM Cup season last night with a convincing performance in New Plymouth.

NIWA's latest seasonal outlook predicts temperatures in all regions are likely to be above average from October to December.

Wellington professional Gareth Paddison is looking to make it two from two when the Charles Tour's Taranaki Open starts tomorrow.

The All Blacks selectors will seriously consider ditching a backup hooker and halfback from their year-end tour squad to make room for more rugby World Cup fringe contenders.

No less than 18 All Blacks are about to start filtering back into the national provincial championship.

New Zealand's analogue television service will be switched off progressively nationwide between September 2012 and late 2013, the Government said today.

Standing on snakes and having trees fall on him are all in a day's work for the archaeologist who's been called Auckland's Indiana Jones.