Greg McGee is the author of The Open Side, the biography of All Black captain Richie McCaw. He is also a literary gender bender: McGee

K2 is the most toxic and harmful of the synthetic cannabis products he has witnessed in patients, an emergency department specialist says.

A woman has been sentenced to community work and reparation for dishonestly obtaining nearly $2000 from a rest home resident.

Otago police have been visiting retailers selling the synthetic cannabis K2 and asking them to drop the item from their shelves.

They are used to seeing double at Dunedin's Tahuna Normal Intermediate School - it has 14 pairs of twins.

Queenstown bouncer Jonathan Dixon was remanded on bail on two separate charges yesterday at the Invercargill District Court.

Sarah Ivey sends the snow flying on a heli-ski adventure in the Remarkables.

Sarah Ivey is dropped among the pinnacles of the Remarkables Range in the Southern Alps by heli-ski in the search for white powder magic.

The Electoral Commission recommends abolishing the rule that allocates list seats to parties which win an electorate seat but do not reach the required threshold of votes. Do you agree? Vote now.

One Dunedin city councillor has apologised, but another is refusing to, after comments by both about their ages were condemned by Age Concern Otago yesterday.

Danielle Wright hits the South Island ski fields, on a sled pulled by huskies.

Labour MP Maryan Street is proposing a law change to permit voluntary euthanasia under some circumstances. Two doctors argue the pros and cons. You can scroll down to the bottom of the page and vote 'Yes' or 'No' and also leave a comment.

It will be a case of getting groceries by helicopter for one Skippers Canyon family after the only access road to the remote valley collapsed yesterday morning.

The Rimutaka Hill Road and the Desert Road have reopened after snow forced their closure this morning.

Visiting the mountain village of Glenorchy is pure inspiration, writes Paul Rush.

Snow was falling in the hills around Wellington this afternoon as a strong southerly blast snow that brought snow down to sea level moved up the country.