Three men are before the courts after two serious assaults in Westport earlier this week. Acting Detective Senior Sergeant, West Coast, Glen ...

About 3000 properties in Southland and Otago remain without power, more than a week after severe weather lashed much of the South Island. The ...

Thousands of nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants have voted to take more strike action next month to highlight what they call ...

More than 100 police officers are under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were "falsely or erroneously recorded", RNZ has revealed.

A Southland teacher aide who had child pornography and demonstrated a "concerning desire to escalate" his offending, has been locked up. Quade ...

A solo day walk turned into a rescue mission while Southland was in a state of local emergency over the long weekend. Southland police said a ...

US President Donald Trump has set the refugee limit at 7,500 for 2026, the lowest cap on record, and will largely focus on South Africans from ...

Hurricane Melissa's confirmed death toll has climbed to 44, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the ...

A former Australian state minister jailed for the sexual abuse of two young men more than a decade ago has been described as callous and ...

Are Naval Point’s burglars getting off scot-free? That is the question posed by the Lyttelton yacht club's chairwoman after it suffered its ...

This morning, the city has been inundated with suspicious red balloons tied to drains, inviting passersby to risk saying "hey," to a sewer-dwelling void-clown with a cannibalistic taste for human ...

Hurunui Mayor Marie Black selected Fiona Harris as her deputy mayor at the inaugural council meeting in Amberley on Thursday. It is the first time two women have held the two roles at the same time.