Drivers relying on an electronic map to find their way across Southland are being sent down a secondary road, with potentially fatal consequences.

Council takes leap of faith to give another chance to Black Power member who was jailed for assault and grievous bodily harm.

Gusts up to 170km/h in the South Island, leave emergency services inundated with calls.

The parents of the two overseas students who died when kayaking on Lake Tekapo are still waiting for their sons' bodies to return home.

Firefighters have responded to about 50 jobs as winds of up to 170 km/h batter the lower South Island, with at least one car being overturned.

New Zealand Post is pulling out of six-day rural delivery in parts of Otago and Southland.

Isobel Marriner gets a maritime history lesson amid the spectacular scenery of Fiordland.

Nature displays its art in ever-evolving form. To see it, head south, says Elisabeth Easther.

Police are today still searching for a man who is on the run after cutting off his electronic monitoring bracelet.

Taxi company Uber says it has no plans to launch its services in Otago and Southland just yet - but that hasn't stopped them offering sweeteners to the public today.

Neglected Campbell Island seems to me like New Zealand's planet Pluto.

When Edendale, Southland, local Lois Heads had to decline involvement in another community service, she cried.

Police and safety investigators are looking into a fatal farm accident in Southland.

A slip near the Otago-Southland boundary in the Catlins has closed the Southern Scenic Route between Papatowai and the Niagara-Tokanui Highway.

Justine Tyerman has a few problems with her conscience on the Hollyford Track.

One person is in serious condition and another has moderate injuries after the car they were in smashed into a power pole in Southland tonight.

Cathedral caves and ringing birdsong - the Catlins astound Jane Jeffries.

A Dunedin commercial pilot stabbed multiple times in a bathroom cubicle will make a full recovery, her mother says.

A truck driver is in serious condition after his truck collided with a utility vehicle in Southland this afternoon.

A German tourist thought to be missing has come forward after spotting a photograph of herself on Facebook and contacting police.

Search teams have been deployed into Eastern Fiordland as the search continues for a missing German tourist.

The body of a kayaker has been found on a beach near the mouth of the Waiau River, Tuatapere.

A search is under way for a missing German woman in the Manapouri Hope Arm area in Southland.

Most of the 25 cats owned by Invercargill woman Averil Gardiner have been rehomed to meet a court's deadline.

'The time has come for reality to sink in,' said a judge as he ordered an Invercargill woman to dispose of 22 of cats.