This coastal area which straddles the Otago and Southland regions is home to penguins, sea lions, permanently wind-blown trees and an eye-opening petrified forest.

Beneath the Catlins mist lurks a wilderness so ancient, it’s like taking a gigantic step back to the Jurassic period, writes Julia Shallcrass.

A terminally ill Roxburgh man who shot his wife of 43 years because she was leaving him has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Two 22-year-olds who failed to report from a rafting trip on the Taieri River in Otago have been found safe and well.

Sarah Payne knows exactly where her best friend, Jane Bishop, made the fateful decision...

The elegant charm of lakeside Queenstown brings on an old-fashioned feeling of serenity for this lucky couple.

Police in Wanaka are determined to "get to the bottom" of a series of incidents involving a naked man engaging in...

Shareholders of Dairy Holdings Ltd, which owns 58 dairy farms in the South Island, have bought shares owned by the collapsed South Canterbury Finance.

A good Samaritan who helped rescue a mother and her toddler from Otago Harbour yesterday watched...

They've no idea what to make of the strange people who have appeared on the far riverbank....