Summer has ground to a spectacular halt in a number of regions over the past week - is it going to get even worse?

James Napier Robertson talks to Jacqueline Smith about making a movie on the smell of an oily rag.

An American woman dies after becoming pinned under a rock when a family rafting trip on the Mohaka River turned to tragedy yesterday.

Esk Valley produces some of our best wines, discovers Joelle Thomson.