A short-sharp barrage of rain and hail pummelled Invercargill today leaving the city looking like a scene from mid-winter.

Fire crews are still dampening down hotspots after a bush fire destroyed one house and forced the evacuation of several others in Roxburgh overnight.

Revellers celebrating New Year and the start of a new decade in New Zealand behaved themselves last night.

A man was reportedly attacked with a running chainsaw while sitting on a lawn of a Dunedin house yesterday afternoon.

Police are looking for two men in connection with an assault on a Dunedin woman.

A Dunedin woman suffered facial injuries after she was twice assaulted overnight.

A group of Robin Bain supporters has launched a petition to deny his son David Bain's compensation application

Three young, talented and successful designers pay tribute to the tutors who have helped them get where they are.