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.

Come November 5, more than 9000 people will head to the domain to watch, take part and enjoy the The Hororata Highland Games - the largest in NZ.

About 100 farmers in Otago and Southland were forced to dump milk over the weekend in the aftermath of the milk silo collapse at Fonterra's Edendale site.

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

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.