Aww, so the last of the von Trapp children has died: Maria, aged 99. She looked like a real sweetie, and she certainly had an interesting ...

Out on the constitutional this morning, I passed eight people and seven of them were fully focused on their phones, either selecting music...

Wow, it's three years today since the earthquake that wrecked Christchurch, when Scott the house-painter put down his brush and came i...

Clichés of course become clichés because they are true: so 'Travel broadens the mind' while trite, is incontrovertible. More than ...

The focus was on Queensland this week, with a tourism lunch and an event (the latter on the Floating Pavilion - such a mistake, bar-ta...

So, a surfer had an encounter with a shark in the Catlins yesterday, getting chewed on the leg and having to punch its nose to get free. H...

I've just read a report that two poachers were shot dead in a shoot-out last night at Phinda Private Game Reserve, in an incident inv...