Police are searching for the people who deliberately burned a 4-month-old cat.

This week we are publishing the full Amber-Lee Cruickshank case podcast transcript.

South Island man has serious eye injury after firework was shot directly in his face.

New Zealand's smaller towns and cities are most vulnerable from house price falls

A Gore dairy employee was attacked with a machete during the robbery.

There was an incident with a knife, new babies and shades of Harry Potter for our new MPs.

Four youths - aged 12 to 16 - have been arrested for a crime spree in Southland.

The September 23 general election will be one of the ''most important'' of its kind.

It may be snow-go for some motorists this week, with white stuff on the way.

Parliamentary officials reportedly know the content of the Todd Barclay tapes.

National Party board member who asked woman to withdraw Todd Barclay complaint named.

Todd Barclay: National MP, former tobacco lobbyist, and now in the thick of it.

A northwester warmed parts of the south, as those in the upper North Island shiver.

A house in Gore has been badly damaged in a fire.

Road closed, one dead, multiple injured after car and campervan collide near Gore.

Armed police have spent three hours trying to enter a house in Gore this evening.

Investigation was into whether Todd Barclay breached a section of the Crimes Act.

Southland shearer Leon Samuels today set a new world solo eight-hours strongwool ewe-shearing record after a tally of 605 in a woolshed north of Gore.

A "large amount of personal belongings and money" was stolen from cars.

The crash resulted in the death of a motorcyclist. It occurred on SH1 around 4pm just east of Pukerau.

Big swells predicted to surge up the eastern side of New Zealand from Kaikoura to north of Mahia Peninsula

Ted Gordon was heading to Gore when he got a phone call to say the man who raped and killed his daughter 23 years ago had died in a crash.

A Gore man has been arrested following an assault on Thursday evening.

The man killed in a motorcycle crash near Gore on Tuesday was convicted of raping and killing a South Otago woman in 1993.

Road toll now equal to last summer's following death of motorcyclist.

Gore's anti-prohibition whisky makers had plenty of bite, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Three boys were playing in the school grounds when they were approached by an unknown man.

Gore's art gallery is the magnet, but other delights abound too, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Firefighters from across Southland who were called to an explosion at Dongwha New Zealand's plant in Mataura at 4.30pm are preparing to leave the scene.

A home has been destroyed by fire in a Gore overnight.