It's beginning to feel like summer in some parts of the country, with pohutukawa bursting into bloom. "People have been getting a

The United States and Canada were New Zealand's biggest foreign investors over the last three years.

It was a wild day of weather for the upper North Island yesterday, but what will today bring?

It's been a disappointing season for sheep farmers but shareholders in Alliance Group - the country's biggest sheep meat processor - to look forward to.

An unseasonable cold snap will be felt in much of the country over the weekend as a front moves over the North Island.

Farming entrepreneur Colin Harvey has put his 6,639-hectare Lake McKay Station up for sale.

A weather balloon with cameras attached has captured a stunning view of Central Otago from the sky.

It should be a fine Labour weekend for most Kiwis, with a high set to arrive on Saturday.

A dog attacked his hens so this man used the closest thing to hand when he took his anger out on the dog owner.

A new Queenstown house has become a local curiosity.

Heavy rain is set to drench southern parts of the South Island. Westland, south of the glaciers, is expecting peak rainfalls up

Police are investigating after a milk tanker ran off the road in North Otago, killing the driver.

This will be a good weekend to check out the museum or cuddle up with a book as heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast for parts of the country.

Shareholders have approved the second stage of a major South Canterbury irrigation scheme.

We will find you and we will kill you - that is the message the Otago Regional Council is set to issue today to Bennett's wallabies that enter Otago.

WATCH: Dashcam footage shows a Coromandel road turn into a river after rain lashed much of the country over the weekend closing roads.

New Zealand wool prices generally advanced at the country's latest weekly auction, which featured the greatest number of bales on

A Lord of the Rings sightseeing flight crashed, killing the pilot, after he flew low to clear livestock from the airstrip.

Property values in one former gold mining town have hit the roof.

The 2012km tractor expedition, to help raise $1 million to save Sir Edmund Hillary's hut in Antarctica prepares to cross Cook Strait tomorrow.

Up to three dead cows have mysteriously washed up on a Dunedin beach this weekend.

Sherlock and Berlin are four and eight year-old chocolate labradors. They are two of more than 4600 labradors in the city, the most popular dog breed this year.

Fire has destroyed a farming dealership in Invercargill overnight, where crews faced both roaring heat and freezing weather to save surrounding businesses.

Kaitangata, the small NZ town with big international interest, has been forced to halt its cheap property offers.

Evan Dick: We talk to a South Otago dairy farmer who's come up with a novel plan to solve the housing crisis and the labour shortage in rural New Zealand.

Kaitangata in the South Island is making world headlines with its ambitious push to entice city dwellers to relocate to the tiny South Otago town.

INTERACTIVE: Explore map of assaults, sexual assaults and robberies to see how your neighbourhood compares with the rest of the country.

Alarm after tuberculosis-positive cow discovered at his farm.

Environment Canterbury is standing by its decision not to fine or prosecute Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias and her businessman husband Hugh Fletcher after photos emerged of their cattle drinking out of a North Canterbury lake.