Fears have been raised that motorists might fail to recognise a 3-D crossing in North Dunedin, putting pedestrians at risk.

Reese Witherspoon's Kiwi love affair has come to an end, with the Oscar-winning actress "sad to say goodbye" to New Zealand.

There've been no flare-ups overnight following a lakeside scrub fire at Wanaka, which sent huge fireballs into the sky.

A lakeside Wanaka scrub fire that was shooting "huge, big fireballs" into the sky has now been contained.

Plummeting numbers of drivers caught speeding in the South Island have coincided with the deadliest year on southern roads in a decade.

Closing the Cadbury factory will hit Dunedin hard, but what does it say about the health of NZ manufacturing?

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

A top-level meeting to discuss the Cadbury factory closure ended with reporters being ejected and the workers' union leaving early citing legal concerns.

A Chinese tourist has pleaded guilty to careless driving which caused a traumatic brain injury to a Canadian cyclist.

A man is in police custody after an incident in Taieri Mouth in which another man was injured in what was believed to be a machete attack.

The driver, captured in footage shot on the Crown Range, ignored repeated efforts to make him pull over.

The end of a three-year affair with a Dunedin businessman allegedly led an Auckland woman to harass her former lover's wife.

Mystery surrounds the American buyer of a high country station on the shore of Lake Hawea.

Mystery surrounds death of Kiwi woman living in Sydney found with slashed wrists next to a note saying 'he did it'.

The stereotype of the couch-burning student is becoming a thing of the past as University of Otago's tough stance on fire-lighting pays dividends.

Hollywood leading ladies Reese Witherspoon is lapping up the luxury of Queenstown, and taking to social media to brag about her idyllic Kiwi trip.

Crews have managed to contain a big blaze at high country farm Otematata Station in North Otago.

Daily and weekly doses effective, but not monthly.

Canadian cyclist Bernard Gendron surprised doctors in Dunedin yesterday by talking after wakig up from induced coma.

Farmers in Central Otago hope a new method of biological control will give them some respite from the rabbit problem.

Tropical downpours are drenching the north of the North Island as thunderstorms loom over Northland, Auckland and Waikato.

Two kayakers have been rescued after a scary encounter with sea lions left them trapped on the rocks.

Most workers declined to comment after being told not to speak to media, but a few made their feelings known after the 10am meeting.

The owner of the Cadbury factory in Dunedin has announced a proposal to end operations in 2018, with 350 people facing redundancies.

Bernard Gendron remains in an induced coma in Dunedin Hospital, but his family, who have arrived from Canada, have seen encouraging signs.

A Cromwell man has been jailed 15 months for the death of his friend who fell from a quad bike last September.

Inexperience and errors in judgement caused the death of 12-year-old Jack Martin after a boating accident on the Blue Lake at St Bathans

Police are calling for witnesses to a vicious assault at Dunedin International Airport early last Friday morning.

Spending 48 hours in a scenic town with a head cold isn't so bad, Susan Strongman reports.