A magnitude 4.3 quake has shaken Fiordland this morning.

A 12-year-old boy has been evacuated from the Milford Track in Fiordland after breaking his leg.

Two teenagers were killed after a beech tree fell on their car as they were driving in Fiordland, an accident which police say was caused by "no fault" of theirs.

Heavy rain is forecast to sweep the South Island this morning as most centres settle in for a drizzly day.

About 100 Southland dairy cows have died or been destroyed after contracting lead poisoning from grazing on a gun club property.

New Zealanders are split down the middle over dual proposals to cut a tunnel or monorail track through parts of Fiordland which contain some of the country's greatest walking tracks.

Two people suffered minor injuries when a car and a tour bus, with 24 passengers, collided in Fiordland today.

Two stricken hunters' lives were probably saved in Fiordland after they used their locator beacons to call for help, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre says.

A helicopter was dispatched from Te Anau with a doctor and police staff, but when they arrived at the scene the man was pronounced dead.

After being stuck in flooded conditions for an extra night, 120 Milford Track trampers arrived in Milford Sound yesterday exhausted, unshowered, but upbeat.

Renewed plans to build a 160km Hollyford-Haast highway through the Fiordland National Park will not stack up environmentally or economically, Forest and Bird says.

A "strong" earthquake has struck Fiordland this morning, GeoNet reports.

The family of missing fisherman Kevin Cosgrove have accepted it is unlikely his body will be recovered from his sunken vessel the Governor.

Hard times haven't deterred auction-goers from putting up their hands to buy art, reports Lesley Springall

Edward Rooney charts a course to the bottom of South Island and across to Australia on one of the busiest cruise ships afloat.