Touring New Zealand September/October Winifred Atwell -- known as the "Queen of the Ivories" -- is an iconic part of the piano culture of the 1950s in Australia and New Zealand ... a culture which has now all but disappeared.

Auckland coffee roasting company Avalanche has won the Supreme Award in this year's Huhtamaki New Zealand Coffee Awards. This year there was a 30% increase in entries for the awards, judged over two days at Auckland's MIT by a panel of New Zealand and Australian coffee experts.

AA Tourism has launched Great Kiwi Road Trips today, its latest domestic tourism campaign to inspire Kiwis to explore New Zealand.

Villa Maria has been awarded the trophy for Bordeaux blends at the Tri Nations Wine Challenge for the Villa Maria Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2007 announced last night.

Vidal Estate has triumphed over our tri-nations competitors to take out the Shiraz Trophy at the Tri Nations Wine Challenge announced last night.

A garden shed which includes a wall sized projection screen, a bar, a dance floor and a disco ball and a hexagonal shed made entirely of recycled materials on a budget of precisely zero dollars are among the entries in New Zealand Gardener magazine's search for the greatest Kiwi garden shed.

The New Zealand fashion industry is eagerly counting down to the start of New Zealand Fashion Week, but it's at the Fashion Weekend when the fun starts for followers of fashion - with workshops, seminars, designer shows, entertainment and of course, the legendary New Zealand Herald Designer Gara

Get ready for a radical new compact people -mover from Hyundai. The ix20 will be seen this month.

The first compact MPV (Multi Purpose Vehicle) from the powerful Korean brand appears at the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris on September 30.

At a prestigious awards ceremony held in Wellington last night the winners of the inaugural NZ Biodiversity Photo Competition were announced.

Price levels in Auckland and Sydney have risen substantially due to the strengthening of the Australian and New Zealand dollars, putting the two cities in the top third of the 73 cities surveyed.