One person has died after a dump truck careered off a bank near Portage in Marlborough.

Marcus Lush took a minute out of his radio show last week to pick on Picton.

Floods in Marlborough and snow expected further south as cold front sweeps in.

The rider has been disqualified and given a community work sentence.

Six months on from giant earthquake, Kaikoura and North Canterbury still doing it tough.

Whangaparaoa was drenched with nearly five times its normal April rainfall, figures show.

Farmers have freed stags from a wire fence they had fallen in to while fighting.

Grab the wet weather gear as rain is on its way, and high winds are set to hit.

Low-decile schools are slowest to join new a scheme that funds extra teachers

White Island saw wind gusts of 200km/h during Cyclone Cook.

Shandelle Battersby checks into a spacious studio at a Blenheim spot with a great pool.

Police are hunting a Marlborough man who they say is considered dangerous.

Enjoy the sun while you can, rain is back from Wednesday

One man's passionate complaint against Picton's tourist guide has not been upheld

Heavy rain is expected across NZ this week in the wake of Cyclone Debbie

Now it's the South Island's turn to struggle with travel woes for air passengers.

The Blenheim-based newspaper, first printed in 1866, will shift to a morning newspaper.

One man died after the single-vehicle crash near Kaituna-Tuamarina Rd on Friday night

Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.

A truck carrying steel has rolled in the Wairau Valley near Blenheim, spilling diesel onto the road.

No formal identification has been made yet.

The search for three men who went missing in separate water incidents over the weekend has resumed today.

The search for a diver reported overdue in the Marlborough Sounds has been called off for the night.

The Airbus contender to replace the RNZAF's Hercules is making its 100-tonne presence felt in New Zealand this weekend.

The giant November 2016 earthquake has snapped the top decks from a sunken Soviet cruise liner in the Marlborough Sounds.

Sixteen-year-old Lara Glover died on her way to go swimming with friends.

The person who died in a crash on State Highway 1 just out of Blenheim on Sunday was local teenager Lara Jayne Glover, police have confirmed.

Tropical downpours are drenching the north of the North Island as thunderstorms loom over Northland, Auckland and Waikato.

New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.

High winds to bring more misery to fire crews fighting bush blazes today, but no rain where it is needed.