A small blue envelope carried 150 years ago from New Zealand to Edinburgh is set to fetch up to $20,000 at auction - for having just half a stamp.

The 2011 harvest is all but over for the country's winemakers. The vineyard managers can take a well-earned break after the harvest hullabaloo, happy in the knowledge the wines are safely in the tank.

Emma Neale is a poet, novelist, teacher and anthologist living in Dunedin. Her latest novel, Fosterling, is the sort of book that can only come from multiple roles and experiences.

A cattle truck driver killed when his truck and trailer rolled on SH1 north of Kaikoura has been named.

A Dunedin man who sparked a police manhunt after he fired a shotgun during an argument with his partner has turned himself in.

Police are hunting a 50-year-old Dunedin man after he fired a shotgun during a domestic incident in Central Otago.

A tragic accident at a roadside stop by the edge of a South Island lake resulted in the death of a three-year-old Auckland boy yesterday.

A car found burning in the western suburbs of Dunedin may hold clues to the "gruesome" murder of an unemployed man.

Police have found a weapon believed to be involved in the death of a man whose body was found on an Otago beach yesterday.