A new premiere boutique hotel may have been cool enough for Welsh crooner Tom Jones to stay at, but New Zealand's own Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has deemed it a little too "cool" for her vocal chords.

Watch this space. That is stamped on pretty much everything you read about Knives at Noon right now, writes Paula Yeoman

Adam Thomson's immediate playing future with Otago, the All Blacks and the Commonwealth Games sevens team is in limbo

The woman who would replace David Garrett should he leave Parliament says she "unreservedly" backs Act leader Rodney Hide.

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.

After a year of rock'n'roll adventures in the USA, Gin Wigmore returns to stake her claim in this year's New Zealand Music Awards and play a national tour. She talks to Scott Kara.

A runaway truck rolled down a hill and fatally pinned a 62-year-old against another truck in a tragedy that has shocked a small community.

A 62-year-old Dunedin man has died in a "tragic accident" after being pinned between two trucks as he talked to their drivers this morning.