Sarah Lawrence and her teenage son have a wheely good time in Central Otago.

A Queenstown kapa haka performer who blackmailed a migrant taxi driver by accusing him of rape has been sentenced to nine months' home detention.

The collapse of the Southern District Health Board's computer system could affect elective surgery and other procedures at Dunedin Hospital.

A month after his marriage fell apart, Edward Livingstone had moved about 70km south of his family - a wife he was barred from contacting and children he could see only under supervision.

The death in Dunedin of two young children at the hands of their father sent David Fisher in search of a monster. He found something more unsettling - a man.

Australian-listed Origin Energy is bullish on the potential of exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Caraval prospect off the coast of Oamaru.

The children of a Dunedin man killed by one punch are pleased his death is helping to prevent similar acts of violence.

Cancer has not dampened British tourist Chris Burrows' spirit for travel and neither has the theft of his belongings - including vital medication.

Police are investigating an alleged historic indecent assault involving a former Otago Boys' High School teacher.

A hotel manager who said he worked 100-hour weeks and was owed more than $8000 has had his claim dismissed by the ERA.

By this time next year, the first buildings could be going up in Wanaka's single-biggest commercial and residential development.

A 13-year-old Balclutha girl has died after a boat capsized at Surat Bay near Pounawea in South Otago this afternoon.

A violent daylight attack in a small Otago town has resulted in three arrests and an appeal for information about two travellers who police hold concerns for.

A female pedestrian has suffered life threatening injuries after being struck by a petrol tanker in central Dunedin this morning.

OceanaGold plans to scale back its operations and is expected to axe more than 100 jobs at the Macraes goldfield in Otago in response to a falling gold price.

While Central Otago's farmers were delighted by the rain falling on their parched land, cherry growers were less enthusiastic.

There's a mine of reasons to fall in love with Lawrence, writes Elisabeth Easther.

The owner of a dog which chased a sea lion from the sand dunes on an Otago Peninsula beach to the sea has been granted diversion.

Amid stunning Queenstown scenery, Winston Aldworth experiences a very fast, very yellow mid-life crisis.