The Queenstown land was offered for sale by international tender in December.

A cruise ship passenger has been denied entry to New Zealand this week on "character grounds".

Helen Dickson was awarded New Zealand's second highest medal for bravery.

A Dunedin man has been jailed for attempted murder.

A motorcyclist posted a photo of themselves travelling more than twice the speed limit.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

Arsonists leave $40,000 bill after setting fire to slides in children's playground.

A student caught with handwritten notes twice during the same examination was among 50 disciplined for dishonest practices by the University of Otago last year.

Police are at the crash in Central Otago, near the intersection of Springvale Rd and SH85.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the accident, near Kinloch, just after 1pm.

The takeover of Cadbury is leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of chocolate fans and workers from the UK to Dunedin.

Fears have been raised that motorists might fail to recognise a 3-D crossing in North Dunedin, putting pedestrians at risk.

Reese Witherspoon's Kiwi love affair has come to an end, with the Oscar-winning actress "sad to say goodbye" to New Zealand.

There've been no flare-ups overnight following a lakeside scrub fire at Wanaka, which sent huge fireballs into the sky.

A lakeside Wanaka scrub fire that was shooting "huge, big fireballs" into the sky has now been contained.

Plummeting numbers of drivers caught speeding in the South Island have coincided with the deadliest year on southern roads in a decade.

Closing the Cadbury factory will hit Dunedin hard, but what does it say about the health of NZ manufacturing?

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.

Australian businessman gets diversion after crashing his $20m supercar near Queenstown.

A Taieri Mouth man has described coming across the man alleged to be responsible for the bloodied attack.

A Chinese tourist has pleaded guilty to careless driving which caused a traumatic brain injury to a Canadian cyclist.

A man is in police custody after an incident in Taieri Mouth in which another man was injured in what was believed to be a machete attack.

The driver, captured in footage shot on the Crown Range, ignored repeated efforts to make him pull over.

The end of a three-year affair with a Dunedin businessman allegedly led an Auckland woman to harass her former lover's wife.

Mystery surrounds the American buyer of a high country station on the shore of Lake Hawea.

Mystery surrounds death of Kiwi woman living in Sydney found with slashed wrists next to a note saying 'he did it'.

The stereotype of the couch-burning student is becoming a thing of the past as University of Otago's tough stance on fire-lighting pays dividends.

Hollywood leading ladies Reese Witherspoon is lapping up the luxury of Queenstown, and taking to social media to brag about her idyllic Kiwi trip.

Crews have managed to contain a big blaze at high country farm Otematata Station in North Otago.

The crash occurred near Glenavy in South Canterbury.