
Police locate third person
Queenstown police have located the third person wanted in connection with an alleged kidnapping.
Queenstown police have located the third person wanted in connection with an alleged kidnapping.
The father of a Queenstown woman caught up in an investigation into an alleged kidnapping has called for her safe return.
Friends and family have paid tribute to the man killed in a tractor accident near Waikouaiti earlier this week as a "hell of a good guy".
A 68-year-old woman who died after slipping and falling about 40m from a walking track near Wanaka has been identified as Maureen Anne Schofield.
A researcher's tireless efforts to ensure every Kiwi can have a safe, warm and dry home has been rewarded with the country's largest prize for science.
Police have named the 24-year-old man killed when he was thrown from the cab of a tractor that rolled north of Dunedin.
The father of the 22-year-old Queenstown man at the centre of an alleged kidnapping has asked for privacy to allow his son to recover from the ordeal.
Danielle Wright and family share the water with albatrosses, bottlenose dolphins and sea lions on a wilderness cruise through Doubtful Sound.
In the splendid town of Middlemarch, Peter Feeney and his family stay on a sheep station and enjoy Southern hospitality that comes complete with locally brewed beer.
A motorist caught driving at 177 km/h in Otago was one of more than 200 infringements police issued over a four-day blitz in the lead-up to Christmas.
Dunedin Botanic Garden staff are on high alert following a break-in by someone they believe was looking for hallucinogenic drug-producing cacti.
A fish tank at cash-strapped Dunedin Hospital cost $73,000 to install and more than $1000 a week to run in its first year.
Staff at a prison where a Dunedin man died in custody knew he was coming with drugs concealed in his body, a Coroners Court hearing has heard.
Otago's gateway is a hip town of vintage shops and nice beaches, says Elisabeth Easther.
Two whales, which lived more than 20 million years ago, have been identified by Otago University researchers.
A Chinese billionaire behind the controversial buy-up of the Crafar dairy farms and Lochinver Station says New Zealanders have nothing to fear from his investments in the country.
The identity of the new owner of Queenstown's Hilton hotel has been revealed - and it's the group behind the controversial Crafar farm and Lochinver Station purchase.
A Green Island man was left with burnt hands and a garden shed minus one wall after an explosion during a drug-making operation last month.
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Police have named two Pakistani men who died in a truck crash on the Crown Range Road, Queenstown, yesterday.
Japanese tourist caught cutting corners over Central Otago mountain range says he was just trying to minimise his wife's car sickness.
Dunedin police have retrieved a man's body from Otago Harbour this morning, after it was discovered by a member of the public.
The three tourists from Hong Kong were killed when their rental van and a truck and trailer unit collided in Central Otago.
Three people killed in a horror smash in Central Otago this afternoon were all foreign nationals, police say.