IHC has signalled it will stop providing home support, contract board and foster care.

Higher wind speeds have forced the postponement of NASA's super-pressure balloon.

A man jailed following death of friend during a drunken incident had appeal rejected.

A female Corrections officer has been hospitalised following a scuffle in court.

Lorna Subritzky embraces the splendour of our southern playground.

Locals shocked and devastated by the death of a young couple in a plane crash.

Police have released the names of two people killed in the microlight crash yesterday.

A job to walk fat penguins got New Zealanders in a flap - too bad it was all a prank.

A blaze in Dunedin has been brought under control by firefighters.

Research showed there was likely to have been a significant effect on memory.

Murder accused Troy Taylor testifies to deny murdering baby Ihaka Stokes

Lee was sentenced to four months' home detention and ordered to pay reparation.

Many Kiwi women can't correctly pinpoint their fertile window, a new study suggests.

Most sat and stared blankly at the obstacles or hid in the cat tunnel.

Weather for Adele's concert tonight forecast to be worst of star's three Auckland dates.

Shoppers in the big centres won't be able to spend up during Easter stat days.

Police have confirmed the two men who died are believed to be tourists from Germany.

The person has been taken to hospital after crashing on Crown Range, near Queenstown.

Sir Paul Beresford was in the Palace of Westminster when the deadly rampage began outside.

A car and a bus carrying 16 tourists collided on the Te Anau-Milford Highway.

Police don't know how many people were in car that caught fire after tourist-bus crash.

The identity of the perpetrator who poisoned hundreds of roses in a Dunedin cemetery looks set to remain a mystery.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

A warm, sunny week is expected across the North Island before the weather takes a turn for the worse on Friday.

Will a local step in to make Pineapple Lumps and Jaffas?

A Frenchwoman has been given a verbal warning by police.

The Crown says a government employee accused of stalking a businessman for two and a-half years was clever covering his tracks but one small piece of paper gave him away.

A major shake-up of senior management at Otago Polytechnic has cost it $200,000 in severance payments.

Hurling racial abuse at a man for talking in Japanese during his dinner with his family was not enough for two North Otago brothers.

Autumn's cooler temperatures starting to settle in - but sunshine continues.