The bodies of two kayakers were found on Lake Wakatipu this morning.

Moose were released in Westland in 1900 and in Fiordland in 1910 but unlike other such introductions they were not a success.

All Black heart-throb Dan Carter hatched a plan to lure girlfriend Honor Dillon to Queenstown last weekend before asking her to marry him.

The icy southerly sweeping up the North Island has brought snow to the hills around Waikato and the Bay of Plenty and in some paddocks.

Allowing brothels to operate near playgrounds, schools or churches in central Otago resort towns is "unacceptable", a lobby group says.

Ross Allan says his children are distraught after their $1000 Abyssinian moggy was shot dead by a neighbour who thought it was feral.

Slips and surface flooding are causing havoc for motorists in the lower North Island as heavy rain and gale force winds sweep the region.