The principal of an elite Australian Catholic college has suspended a group of boys allegedly involved in a $6000 theft spree in Queenstown.

Rachel Glucina turns her attention to frocks on the rocks at Queenstown's Winter Festival.

A farmer wants TrustPower to check its lines after eight cows died when a 33kV line dropped on his farm.

One of the country's oldest pubs, Central Otago's historic Cardrona Hotel, is on the market again.

On the day DHB fraudster Michael Swann was sentenced police found a boat hidden in a shed.

After nine days at the bottom of a 60m cliff without food or water, Rusty the collie rewarded his rescuer by almost licking him to death.

Police searching for missing 40-year-old Dunedin woman Gayle Dianne Heath have found a body.

Queenstown schools are closed with drivers urged to take extreme care on central South Island roads after heavy snow fell in the area, with more expected.