The Blacks Caps 2010/11 schedule has been announced with only two test matches set aside for the summer.

Now it seems there is a risk that employees could lose an entitlement to public holidays that fall during a closedown period

An Auckland firm is seizing the initiative in boosting public holidays for its workers. Should other firms join them?

Some 2000 metal and manufacturing workers have negotiated a one-off holiday in 2011 to make up for missed public holidays.

The rest of the school holidays could be chilly, with wind expected for the north, frosts predicted in the heartland, and heavy rain in the south.

Foul weather on the first day of the school holidays drove many parents to the cinemas.

Police will evaluate the weekend's "zero-tolerance" trial policy on speed before deciding to extend it or apply it again.

Police are praising motorists for their "slow and careful" driving over the long weekend, which looked set to be the lowest Queen's Birthday road toll in 50 years.

Queen's Birthday weekend has seen a drop in the overall number of crashes, with police trumpeting their zero tolerance approach to speeding as a factor.

The first person to be killed on the roads this holiday weekend was "a good mummy who loved her kids".

A big union wants workers to be paid more if statutory holidays fall on a weekend.

Schoolchildren in several French towns have joined wildcat strikes against a government plan to cut a month from their summer holidays.

Annie Drew and her girls enjoyed a late season splash at the beach yesterday as the North Island's seemingly never-ending summer pushed on.