A superloo with glass exterior walls was among 12 designs recognised last week as the winners of this year's New Zealand Architecture Awards from Nelson and Marlborough were announced.

We quiz some of New Zealand's best winemakers to find their tipples du jour.

Marlborough-based winemaker and mother-of-two Jules Taylor may well be on to something. Hers is a virtual brand with no assets.

Green MP Keith Locke is warning the Government the lawsuit it's bringing against the Waihopai spy base saboteurs may backfire.

The manufacturers of the Bombardier say yesterday's Blenheim incident was the third one of its kind worldwide in less than a week.

A plane with 46 passengers on board has crash landed at Woodburn airport near Blenheim tonight.

A Somali woman was today jailed for nine years for New Zealand's only in-flight aircraft hijacking.

A South Island jaunt for budding photographers is almost too good to be true, writes Jim Eagles.

A woman who fled an alcohol checkpoint and caused a crash that killed Penelope Phillips, above, has been sentenced to home detention.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has supported the police investigation of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.