A Southland man has been fined $400 for harassing a sea lion in an incident that appalled nature lovers in the Catlins earlier this year. One person is dead after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway ...

Burnham Camp’s fire station is back to 24/7 operation for the first time in 18 months. Due to low staffing levels, the station has been operating only 8am-4.30pm Monday to Friday, with volunteer crews ...

Changes to a decades-long needle exchange contract have left a South Island drug-user and health expert worried the decision will breed ...

Using the cemetery plans and other resources, the Tuakiri team uncovered some of those lost stories. John Guntrip was buried in plot 89C at the Barbadoes St Cemetery, alongside his second wife Sarah.

British pop star Ed Sheeran is returning to New Zealand’s shores as part of his Loop tour early next year. The ‘Shape of You’ singer will ...

Finance Minister Nicola Willis will be asking dairy giant Fonterra about the high retail price of butter in New Zealand. Willis told RNZ's First ...

A mountain of donated music and entertainment material has been sorted and priced ready for bargain-hunters at next weekend’s giant Regent Music Sale. Sale co-ordinator Mark Burrows said tens of ...

One person has died following a two-vehicle crash on Telegraph Rd in Burnham, west of Christchurch, police said in a ...

A University of Otago student who died after a car crash is being remembered as a "force to be reckoned with". Tessa Elizabeth Macintosh Sheild, 20, of Marlborough, died following a crash near Hampden ...

A two-year ban from Dunedin Airport for holding up a small sign is "disproportionate", a climate activist says. It was a chilly start for many in the South yesterday, with widespread reports of black ...

Two 13-year-olds have been charged after allegedly stealing an Uber Eats driver’s vehicle and taking it on a 500km joyride to Christchurch. Police say one of the teenagers allegedly stole the car in ...

Abandoned - that is how customers of a Christchurch Westpac branch are feeling after the bank announced it will close its doors on August 8.