Canterbury’s open-coast beaches continue to have the best water quality for recreation, with 95% graded “very good”, “good” ...

Franz Josef faces a growing flood threat as the Waiho River changes course faster than expected, but experts say there’s ...

The storm that cut power to 50,000 Southland and Clutha customers a year ago highlighted the need to be prepared to manage without essential services for at least three days, Emergency Management ...

Christchurch bus routes may be chopped or changed if they trigger any of three mainly- financial performance measures.

All 225 plants which had gone into the ground as part of the Waimakariri River Flood Resilience Infrastructure Upgrades were stolen.

Among the haul were five fully-operational 3D-printed firearms, as well as two cut-down firearms. Police also recovered 33 ...

Cricket fans flocked to Victoria Square on Wednesday to meet their Black Cap heroes, kicking off a huge week of sport in ...

ANALYSIS: One wonders what might have transpired had ‘DMac’ played 10 in South Africa, with the straight-running and ...

ACT Party leader David Seymour has backed National's Blair Cameron for the Nelson electorate, while telling a public meeting ...

On one occasion, Damian Walter David Fraser deliberately dropped a lamb on its head on a hard wooden floor before swinging it.

A Southland teenager’s sudden and “spectacular’’ entry into drug dealing will also be his exit, if Judge Mark Williams has ...

A group opposing plans to build a facility to house the “internationally significant” Anaweka Waka in a Golden Bay park say ...