A project manager for a planned Richie McCaw statue to be erected in his hometown said he hopes it can finally be built this year. Two people have been critically injured in a crash at Thomsons ...

An historic Canterbury home is getting a new lease on life as its owners John and Wendy Hillary pour their life savings into rebuilding it into a modern classic.

A sunny day spent enjoying the lake at Mt Creighton ended with a family’s beached boat being swamped due to a surprise southerly swell. A sunny day spent enjoying the lake at Mt Creighton ended in a ...

Public health experts have found New Zealand's water infrastructure system is leaking at a rate far higher than in leading European countries. The upper North Island is expected to be in for a ...

The family and friends of a New Zealand woman allegedly set on fire by a man accused of trying to murder her in Australia say ...

Wānaka is shaping as the place to be for those seeking some summer sun and heat this week. More than 100 people gathered at a ...

Warning: graphic content. A woman called her husband and sent a photo to police while she was being allegedly violated close to Coronet Peak near Queenstown, a court has heard. A man who knocked out a ...

Warning: Graphic content. A woman texted her husband saying “I rape” before calling him so he could hear her alleged assault, ...

Farming is critical to NZ's future and farmers need to be backed "like we back the All Blacks", National leader Christopher Luxon said during his first visit to the Wānaka A&P Show. Wānaka Show has ...

Soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti AU.N mine on Saturday night, a Ghanaian small-scale miners' ...

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on December 29 stopped recording about four ...

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