If you donned a "Jesus drinks riesling" T-shirt in the normal world, most people would think you were one sandwich short of a picnic, but among other riesling freaks it doesn't make the grade.

Most people are in for a great summer weekend with high air pressure over the North Island and an advancing front in the South Island.

Recent wild growing conditions are posing challenges for winemakers across the globe.

We are not being surrounded by aliens from outer space after all, but by PVC monsters.

While summer continues to roll on, the fashionable tipple should still be rosé. No one is quite sure what is behind the rise and rise of this previously lowly ranked style, but it's popping up all over the place.

Is selling to foreigners the only way out?

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.

The new eight-week competition begins on July 14, when Otago host North Harbour. It involves 14 teams, with games scheduled from Tuesday through to Sunday each week.

United States news organisation CNN International has released its top 10 places to propose to a loved one on Valentine's Day.

Holding his only surviving daughter after a horror car crash, Donald Coulter says: "I thank my lucky stars I still have one. I still wish I had two."

Police have named a woman and her daughter killed in a crash today. A two-year-old girl also in the car was rescued.

Police searching for a missing Roxburgh man have found a body in the Clutha River.

A union will be appealing Burger King's decision to issue a final warning to a Dunedin employee for posting the message "real jobs don't underpay and overwork people like BK does" on her private Facebook page.

Kiwi crime queen Vanda Symon talks to Craig Sisterson about accidental heroines and playing with swords.

Three Dunedin police officers were injured in an attack last night, the second such incident in 24 hours.