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Local Focus: Cycling to stop suicide
A Kiwi couple pedal to raise mental health awareness. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Cycling to stop suicide
A Kiwi couple pedal to raise mental health awareness. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Worried mum organises search party for daughter
The young Russian tourist was quite surprised to be 'found' by a search and rescue team.
Tourist calls bluff on famous signpost
A Scottish tourist has pointed out the famous signpost in Bluff is all wrong.
Empty shoes for people lost to suicide
Bereaved Kiwis are carrying the shoes of their lost loved ones around the country.
School shut half its students out of NCEA
Withdraw of some students from NCEA put James Cook High School under statutory management.
Horror night on roads: 16 hurt, 1 dead
There were seven crashes, including one fatal smash, on New Zealand roads overnight.
$14k fine for illegal paua haul
The company's director was fined so the judge could send a message to other directors.
Player drain killing rugby clubs
In the fourth of a five-part series, we go to the extremities to gauge the state of rugby.
First Tasman rower's 50% chance of death
First Tasman rower had no two-way radio communication once out of sight of land.
Man killed at Bluff port
A man run over by a loader at the country's southernmost deep-water port has died.
Petition for better summer headed for Parliament
The fight for a better summer is going all the way to the Beehive.
'The race is finished, but I am alive'
After three days fearing his stricken yacht would fall apart at sea, exhausted sailor Thomas Ruyant is grateful to be back on dry land in Bluff this morning.
Watch NZH Local Focus: Outlook for Someday winner from Manawatu
15 year old Palmerston North girl, Sarah Ridsdale wins her first film award. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Eight windows smashed at police station
Police believed someone damaged the windows between 5pm and 8pm and were appealing for help from the community.
Investigation launched into Bluff house fire
An investigator has been called in to determine if a house fire in Southland is suspicious.
Search for divers called off
Police say that no one had been reported missing and no one was overdue to return from sea.
Ammonia leak at Bluff contained
An ammonia leak that threatened to force the evacuation of Bluff has been contained.
Police name man killed in wharf crash
A man who died after the truck he was in went over the edge of a wharf was a well-known and loved person in his local community.
Divers pull body from truck
Divers have pulled the body of a man from a truck which went into the water at the South Port wharf at Bluff this afternoon.
Tourist possibly dead before collision
Police are investigating how a 37-year-old Australian came to be lying on the road before she was hit by a car.
Bluff road death treated as homicide
Police remain tight-lipped about how the woman died and detectives from Invercargill are trying to piece together the hours which led up to her death.
Oysters are the stars on Bluff's special day
They start off by piping in the oyster, an old Scottish tradition associated more with haggis than oysters. But not in Bluff. Oysters rule in Bluff.
South Island fires keep emergency crews busy
Fire crews around the South Island were kept busy with three large and a number of small fires overnight.
New migrant runs to Bluff in sandals
An Indian who hails from the slums of Chennai has finished a 3000km run in sandals from the top to the bottom of NZ. Why? "To push my limits".