The Lake Hāwea community says a proposed new bottle store could become a magnet for alcohol abuse in the Otago township. Plans have been ...

It is understood the deaths of the three children and their father after a house fire are being investigated as a murder-suicide.

Peter Winter might be 94 - but he is still handy with a shovel and happy to head into the Canterbury back country to help upgrade the ...

The search for the body of a third child caught in a deadly house fire in Sanson is to resume Monday morning. Four people died in the ...

Some Canterbury schools have closed for asbestos testing because a brand of play sand they had been using has been found to contain asbestos.

Some Canterbury schools have closed for asbestos testing because a brand of play sand they had been using has been found to contain asbestos.

A spat over a missing mobile phone ended in slashed tyres, smashed windows and a heated argument between two Dunedin flatmates. Police arrived ...

The search for the body of a third child caught in a deadly house fire in Manawatu will resume on Monday morning.

An Army corporal is facing court martial after pleading not guilty to two charges of assaulting his former partner, who was also in the ...

"Uber offers a rider the fare for the trip and the rider accepts that offer. Neither drivers nor riders can effectively select one another, and they are practically anonymous vis-à-vis one another ...

A Dunedin man who was startled to attention by a loud "bang" found his kitchen on fire after accidentally dozing off while cooking on his ...

A second-place finish at the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix, Arizona, has cost New Zealand golfer Steven Alker ...