Jesse Mulligan joins a celebration of good food and wine in beautiful surroundings.

Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.

A truck carrying steel has rolled in the Wairau Valley near Blenheim, spilling diesel onto the road.

No formal identification has been made yet.

The search for three men who went missing in separate water incidents over the weekend has resumed today.

The search for a diver reported overdue in the Marlborough Sounds has been called off for the night.

The Airbus contender to replace the RNZAF's Hercules is making its 100-tonne presence felt in New Zealand this weekend.

The giant November 2016 earthquake has snapped the top decks from a sunken Soviet cruise liner in the Marlborough Sounds.

Sixteen-year-old Lara Glover died on her way to go swimming with friends.

New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.

High winds to bring more misery to fire crews fighting bush blazes today, but no rain where it is needed.

A man has been flown to hospital with multi-trauma injuries after his car collided with the back of a truck near Nelson this morning. It's

An autistic advocacy group says a 4four-year jail term for a Blenheim mother who killed her autistic daughter was "nowhere near enough". Autistic

Ruthless, reckless and surging rage: a mother details the struggle of looking after the severely autistic daughter she later killed.

Solo mum killed daughter after two-decade struggle with her violent outbursts, poverty and feelings of being let down by health system.

There was nothing unusual about the late-night 5.1 quake that shook Marlborough and the lower North Island on Wednesday, says a scientist.

Four people will be flown to hospital after a plane bounced off a remote runway in Marlborough.

More than 20,000 students asked for an emergency derived grade following the Kaikoura earthquake.

Idiot throwing nails onto highway could face serious charges, warn police.

An American tourist reported missing over the weekend has been found on board a charter yacht.

A vegetation fire is burning out of control on a sandspit at the bottom of the South Island.

Police are searching for a US tourist whose passport and other items have been found at a Marlborough marina.

A large vegetation fire that came within five metres of a new Blenheim subdivision and forced the evacuation of 60 homes was deliberately lit, authorities have confirmed.

Crews battling a suspicious vegetation fire near Blenheim are facing challenging conditions.

A bush fire which threatened homes near Blenheim this afternoon is being treated as suspicious.

Central New Zealand has been rocked by a strong magnitude 4.5 quake.

Residents on Gascoyne, Budge, Henderson and Gardiner streets should stay inside, police say.

Missing sailor found after failing to meet a friend on New Year's Eve.

A severe quake measuring 5.3 rocked central New Zealand just after midnight.