Some people were terribly excited when Lonely Planet named Waiheke Island as the fifth-best holiday destination in the world.

There’s a lot to be said for sticking to State Highway 2 when travelling down the east coast of the...

Where the city runs out, Rodney begins.

They say there are two kinds of Aucklanders: those who live on the North Shore and those who want to.

The local iwi, Ngāti Whātua, were the first to scope Takapuna, Takarunga and Takaroro – the three volcanic cones at...

You might be forgiven for thinking Farewell Spit is named for the last thing Abel Tasman did as he high-tailed...

Ask anyone with salt-draggled hair and the odd piercing where the best surf break in New Zealand is and there’s...

The proper Māori name of Mauao – or ‘the Mount’, as most New Zealanders tend to call it these days...

If ever you should tire of the splendours of Dunedin – preposterous though that proposition may sound – there’s always...

Those unfamiliar with New Zealand geography are often surprised to find the Waikato River, which they first met at Taupō...