
Live: Third Southland town told to flee floods, blocks of land under water
Some families were forced to wade through waist-high water to safety.
Some families were forced to wade through waist-high water to safety.
While some tourists were helicoptered out today, others remain stranded overnight.
Driver and a front-seat passenger transported to Dunedin and Invercargill for treatment.
The highway is closed after the single vehicle crash.
Reparation she was ordered to pay cancelled after she couldn't pay it back.
National Party calls for review of NCEA exam setting.
Emergency crews are at the scene of a quad bike accident in Waikaka Valley.
A person has been critically injured in a car crash in Nelson.
A police dog was involved in the arrest, and 'one or two people' were injured.
Wanted man teased for his appearance as one pleads: "Leave Mr Tumnus alone".
Police in Gore are hunting a man who rammed a police car and made off with pistols.
The first thing he did was lift his leg on his new owner's gumboot.
At least three unknown assailants attacked him from behind as he was walking.
Endangering transport carries a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment.
Officials have stepped into a third of all low-decile schools since 2009.
As far as crime stories go this one may be due to the silence of the lambs?
Man sentenced to three months' community detention and nine months' supervision.
Top Facebook director made the admission to a committee of US members of Congress.
Events in Southland and Waikato have been cancelled following advice from police.
Andrew Ian Rance, 21, had been in the army since 2015.
A PlaceMakers premises that's for sale in Gore has increased interest.
A death notice has named the boy as Lachlan Paul Graham Jones.
Review after three-year-old boy found dead in Gore wastewater treatment pond.
"This is an absolute tragedy and will be felt by many..."
The boy was alerted missing about 9.30 last night.
Police seeking members of public who might have seen teen walking along Waimea Valley Rd.
Nine people were killed on New Zealand roads during the Christmas and New Year period,
Emergency services were called to the scene on the Waimea Highway about 12.30am.
Anonymous authors' scatalogical slagging of pretty much the whole country is now a book.