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Labour Weekend: What's on around the country?
We've rounded up some of the best events happening all over the country this long weekend.
Wanaka: Eye of the tiger, thrill of the flight
Julie Symons and her fiancé take to the air in magnificent flying machines.
Couple want return of Kiwi wedding day photographs
Two UK honeymooners lost everything after their campervan was broken into in Auckland, but all they want back is their wedding photos.
Writer keen to acknowledge inner strength
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.
Good Taste: Love story through the grapevine
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.
Good Taste: Pinot movement
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.
One for the birds
Live At the Islands draws some big music names to support conservation work.
Police prepare to deal with New Year's Eve hot spots
Liquor bans are in place and police numbers are being boosted in many of the traditional New Year's Eve hot spots.
Climber killed, paraglider hurt in mountain accidents
A climber is reported to have been killed and a paraglider has spinal injuries after accidents on two South Island mountains today.