If wine had a personality, pinot noir's would be strangely alluring while requiring occasional therapy.

Four University of Otago researchers are believed to be the first to isolate and photograph the Rubidium 85 atom.

Edgar Centre general manager Blair Crawford is encouraging the Southern Steel to shift base to Dunedin.

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

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

Ross Allan says his children are distraught after their $1000 Abyssinian moggy was shot dead by a neighbour who thought it was feral.

Tests revealing faultlines along the proposed route of a hydro-electric tunnel on Canterbury's Waitaki River have sparked a redesign of the power project.

Katie-maree Coleman is a young Auckland designer on her way up.

In what could be a first for NZ, a council is looking to sell subsidised cloth nappies from its front desk.