A motorist travelling from Queenstown to Dunedin said it was "just chaos" on the road moments before a head-on crash between a car and a truck ended in a fatality. A tiny native fish with a big ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Rugby union has a lot of competition in Australia, with rugby league, AFL, soccer, and cricket. However, 2025 might go down as a significant ...

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

Māori voters who would like to change electoral rolls before the local elections have until July 10 to make their choice. "If you are Māori, ...

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 ...

Two people have been injured - one critically - in an alleged assault in central Christchurch early today. Donald Trump's former physician says the former president is recovering as expected from a ...

The Minister for Mental Health has been briefed on the death of a baby found in a wheelie bin in Auckland. A severed ...