Firefighters battling huge blaze within 500m of Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter.

NZ chosen for run partly due to its shocking domestic violence rate

A man is in hospital waiting for surgery after being stabbed.

A Kiwi couple pedal to raise mental health awareness. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A Kiwi couple pedal to raise mental health awareness. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The young Russian tourist was quite surprised to be 'found' by a search and rescue team.

A Scottish tourist has pointed out the famous signpost in Bluff is all wrong.

Bereaved Kiwis are carrying the shoes of their lost loved ones around the country.

Withdraw of some students from NCEA put James Cook High School under statutory management.

A hui raising awareness on P was held in Ngongotaha. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

A hui raising awareness on P was held in Ngongotaha.

In the fourth of a five-part series, we go to the extremities to gauge the state of rugby.

First Tasman rower had no two-way radio communication once out of sight of land.

A man run over by a loader at the country's southernmost deep-water port has died.

The fight for a better summer is going all the way to the Beehive.

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.

15 year old Palmerston North girl, Sarah Ridsdale wins her first film award. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Police believed someone damaged the windows between 5pm and 8pm and were appealing for help from the community.

Search continues in Bluff Harbour for two divers feared to have been swept out in the strong current.

A 6200km road trip comes to an epic end, and a startling conclusion, in a place of pilgrimage.

An ammonia leak that threatened to force the evacuation of Bluff has been contained.

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 have pulled the body of a man from a truck which went into the water at the South Port wharf at Bluff this afternoon.

Police are investigating how a 37-year-old Australian came to be lying on the road before she was hit by a car.

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.

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.

Fire crews around the South Island were kept busy with three large and a number of small fires overnight.

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".