Up to 200 production staff could be out of jobs, as the 2024 season of renovation show The Block NZ is axed and the North Shore property remains a building site.
Netball New Zealand and Sky TV have agreed on a one-year extension to their existing broadcasting partnership, while the 2025 ANZ Premiership will be reduced to a new two-round format.
Books are hot to trot at Wānaka's The Next Chapter, celebrating its fourth birthday this year and was recently included in US writer Elizabeth Stamp’s "150 bookshops to visit before you die".
Colin Monteath’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A Portrait of an Antarctic Volcano is this year’s "spell-binding" winner of the Nankervis/Bamford NZ Mountain Book of the Year.
From the gatehouse, through the bright gardens and terrace, the winding orchard, the smoggy greenhouse, the warmth of the kitchen and smokehouse and beyond, Botany Manor unfolds like a labyrinth.