State owned coal company Solid Energy says its plan to build a lignite-to-urea plant in Southland can be viable, even at the upper end of carbon pricing.

Records show this home in the Southland town of Mataura (population 1740) was sold to an Auckland-based buyer in February for...

When 5-year-old Max Christie slipped out of sight 90 metres down a rocky Whakapapa cliff his parents feared they wouldn't find him alive.