Man who shot and killed a kea damaging his property has been convicted and punished.

The sculpture was parked outside Nick Smith's campaign caravan in Nelson today.

Medical cannabis campaigner Rose Renton was behind the rat poison protest.

Alexander Parry, 20, was last seen near Nelson Hospital.

Dr Nick Smith said they rubbed rat poison in his face. The video tells a different tale.

Nuzest director Geoff Ashenden talks star ambassadors and how the business came to be.

Families were in tears after discovering loved ones' headstones cracked or kicked over.

A teacher has been ordered to apologise or pay $100K to a principal for alleging bullying.

For a brief moment, National's Bill English knew what it felt like to be Donald Trump.

Fisherman Tyler Stokes who lied about father's death to pay back fraction of $170k lost.

Canterbury Police are urging motorists to slow down.

Mike Harris has a journal and a piece of fuselage to remember the father he never met.

Fire engulfed a Nelson property with one person suffering burns.

Tributes flow for 'caring' mum who died after allegedly being stabbed at a party.

Neighbours recall tale of woman who jumped to her death in 1967 after killing her husband.

The robbers were armed with a shotgun and stole cash and cigarettes.

Kumeroa is wanted in connection with the aggravated robbery of a Nelson dairy.

Armed pair rob dairy of smokes and cash before fleeing in flash wheels.

Northlanders are set to be battered by gale force westerly winds today.

A 34-year-old man is in hospital after being shot by police in Nelson overnight.

A Nelson girl has been told she isn't allowed to join the boys' gymnastics class.

Kaleidoscopes of monarch butterflies are brightening Auckland's winter skies.

Two teenagers have been arrested and another boy remains on the run.

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The weather gods are not shining on New Zealand this weekend.

A derelict psychiatric hospital building has gone up in flames in Nelson.

Greens say they will spend up large to try and win in Nick Smith's electorate.

The house was so badly damaged it was difficult to establish the fire's cause

"Extraordinarily immature" conduct has ended with a man's trespass from public meetings.

Firefighters are trying to account for two people who normally live in the damaged home.