A huge fire that raged for almost 24 hours south east of Invercargill has destroyed more than 400ha of an internationally recognised scientific reserve.

Helicopters will join efforts to control a large bushfire this morning that has already burned more than 400ha of conservation land near Invercargill.

A sexual assault victim faced her attacker in court and described how his "depravity" had robbed her of her childhood.

An Invercargill meat company has been ordered to pay its former chief executive more than $100,000 in unpaid bonuses, compensation and other costs.

Three teenaged men have been arrested following an alleged serious assault on an Invercargill man that left the victim with a broken nose and fractured eye socket.

A Cromwell man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for raping and indecently assaulting a girl over a nine-year period some 40 years ago.

A drunk driver was suffocated between his car door and roof after swerving onto the wrong side of the road to hit a “ferret”, evidence given to a coroner says.

Stability limitations with the Easy Rider are shared by other boats of the same design, according to the Transport Accident Investigation Commission.

Invercargill Police are investigating a brutal invasion where a 62-year-old man was bound and gagged.