Life & Style

You get to sleep in ‘‘star beds’’, or heavy duty swags but tents are available if the dessert...

Outback sleep-out ideal for budding astronomers

If you are looking at a trip to Alice Springs, Melbourne- based travel writer Catherine Best suggests an overnight stargazing experience should be on your itinerary. THE BOOK: This is an edited...

Not even in the bidding

You’d think not getting married in white would make things easier.

Zapped in space

The most important data from Nasa’s first crewed Artemis II mission may not be its photographs.

Powering on beyond the crisis

We must use this moment to address our fossil fuel dependence.

Teeth hold diet secrets

How do you reconstruct the diet of prehistoric people?

Guardians of the pā

The stories of Kātiki Point and the names associated with it are being given new life, Tom McKinlay and Luke Chapman learn.

Apple season

Celebrate apple season with puff pastry dumplings, writes Nigel Slater.

Toitū te whenua - Māori Place Names Series 2

It’s a jungle out there

The urban garden is a rich source of wildlife once you know what you are looking at, writes Maureen Howard.

Plant extremists put on the map

Plants in the Dunedin Botanic Garden rock garden feature interesting adaptations needed to...

Plant extremists put on the map

As part of this year’s sustainability-focused Wild Dunedin festival, we will have a family-friendly, self-directed plant trail set up in the lower Dunedin Botanic Garden called ‘‘Plants that...

Eating more fibre ‘becoming sexy’

In a rare occurrence social media messaging and science are promoting the same message when it comes to fibre — eat more.

Cooking that sparks the feeling of home

Cooking that sparks the feeling of home

Elizabeth Hewson decries perfection when it comes to simple, comforting family cooking.

Peppery radishes don’t need much. Grated and folded through good butter with lemon and a whisper of anchovy, they turn into something unexpectedly good. Serve at room temperature, thickly spread on...

Gathering on the well-trodden path to Central Otago

Later than some vintages it may be, but Central has been a hive of activity with the grape harvest getting into full swing. Across the region people have been gathering: backpackers, retirees,...

In the land of GIANTS

It’s OK (and even encouraged) to sit on the Giants of Mandurah for a photo. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

In the land of GIANTS

This is an edited extract from Ultimate Family Holidays: Australia by Catherine Best, published by Hardie Grant Explore

As told by The Clean

Clockwise from top left: Playground, Woodhaugh Gardens, Dunedin, 1980. Photograph: Craig McNab,...

As told by The Clean

Journalist and poet Richard Langston had loved Dunedin band The Clean for decades and knew there should be a book. But having realised it would be him writing it, he had to work out how.