My regular walking circuit includes, just before the dreaded 132 steps, a flat concrete bridge across a small creek that drains mainly storm...

No pumpkins around here, or chrysanthemums or Indian corn cobs hung decoratively by their crisp dry husks. No turkeys either, apart from t...

So that's that, then. Another explosion this afternoon, even bigger than the first, which last night we learned had lasted 52 seconds ...

Unlike up here in Auckland, it's been a hot, sunny day down on the Coast today. A good day to get out in that beautiful green and blue...

Still no news - just heart-breaking details about the men trapped in the mine. Actually, one of them isn't: he's a boy, turned 17 ...

No news isn't always good news. It's been two days now with no contact with the trapped miners and, it seems, precious little prog...

All eyes on the West Coast now, where 29 coal miners have been trapped over two kilometres inside a tunnel by an explosion at Pike River M...