Visiting Invercargill for the week-long Burt Munro Challenge offers more than just an adrenalin rush, writes Jacqui Madelin.

Travellers between Tauranga and Christchurch, and Invercargill and Wellington, are the big winners in Air New Zealand's latest boost to domestic capacity.

A jetboat driver has been fined and ordered to pay reparation to the family of a British tourist killed in a river boat crash in December 2008.

Several roads are again affected by ice after another heavy frost.

A woman seeking a late-night snack was shocked to find a demonic face carved into one of her tinned pears.

Nearly 30 South Island commercial fish dealers are being investigated for alleged illegal trading.