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.

30-year-old jailed for at least four years for city attack - and subsequent indecent assaults on two former flatmates.

Photos found on computer showed a 'warped interest', court hears.

A university student is juggling a law degree while remaining technically homeless as she bounces from flat to flat, raising money for a scholarship fund.

Police said today they were aware of footage of a woman who defecated in the gutter in a Dunedin street and inquiries were continuing.

Tourist charged with threatening to kill girlfriend.

Footage has emerged of a woman going to the toilet in a gutter in a Dunedin street.

Children appeal to Otago students to throw their glass away.

Matt Eaton was hoping for something a bit tastier when he went fishing.

Two women were asleep when the man entered their Queenstown hotel room about 4.30am to steal cash

There is an effort to overturn the decision to allow American television presenter Matt Lauer to buy the Hunter Valley Station.

The group became rowdier and continued to use obscene language, directed at others.

New Zealand's mobile surgical bus has been making healthcare more accessible to rural communities for 15 years. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Rare cache of paintings by famous NZ painter Frances Hodgkins surface in England

A wild horse had to be killed after it was severely injured in an attack.

More needs to be done to combat the pervasive influence of porn, a visiting expert says.

New Zealand universities have again scored high rankings in the annual QS World University Subject Rankings.

House built by polytechnic students shifted to new site.

A Dunedin shopkeeper fears she will witness another fatal crash.

Six per cent of New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguin's have been treated.

The woman's car was hit by a truck pulling out and she "somehow made a left-hand turn'' into the building.

Manapouri man had left for the Falls Dam area yesterday but failed to return.