One person was taken to hospital with moderate injuries after a piece of heavy machinery slid into a hole near Invercargill. A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said they were called to the ...

One patient suffered extreme pain after a piece of tooth was left in his gum, and another person was hospitalised after her cheek was pierced ...

Otago Nuggets guard Don Carey jun will miss the final two games of the National Basketball League season. The 26-year-old American is ...

Funeral debt is an unwelcome, extra burden at a time of grief for a significant number of people. I have always wanted to visit Hallstatt, a prehistoric site that his given its name to the early Iron ...

MetService wanted to issue a severe weather warning the day before a devastating cyclone made landfall in 2023, but faced opposition from ...

Organisers of the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival have had to cancel the second night of the event due to bad weather. The theme of the festival this year is Wings of Wonder and First Church was ...

Out in the dark, on a frost-bitten Saturday in Middlemarch, I turned my telescope towards Messier 83. Astronomers call it a barred spiral ...

After the loss of four aircraft in one year due to severe weather, the New Zealand Airline Academy (NZAA) has "finally" received council approval for a new hangar. Severe winds flipped and destroyed ...

All Blacks and Blues winger Caleb Clarke has been discharged without conviction for dangerous driving. In February the 26-year-old pleaded guilty ...

The first North Otago group to enter the Te Hautoka kapa haka contest finished third at the biennial Otago and Southland kapa haka competition held at the Edgar Centre in Dunedin this week. The event ...

In the six months since the Otago Regional Council adopted a climate strategy "a lot of progress has been made", principal strategy adviser Rebecca McLeod says. Further, Dr McLeod said two large ...

By Lillian Hanly of RNZ The Prime Minister is defending the government's boot camps despite one participant being removed from the pilot following a court appearance, saying they are some of New ...