A hunter who got lost and spent two nights in freezing conditions in the Blue Mountains has vowed to return to the area for some unfinished business.

The hunter missing in Blue Mountains of South Otago has been found.

Debris from a rock fall at the Devil's Staircase, near Queenstown, has blocked off part of the road.

Search and rescue teams looking for a missing hunter near Balclutha have called in search dogs tonight.

A Central Otago man craving chocolate was so angry a vending machine failed to produce the goods, he turned to his Black and Decker grinder.

A speeding car crashed off a Dunedin motorway while its driver was fleeing from police tonight.

Syrian refugees sang and danced in the aisles of a train on an "awesome" trip across the Otago countryside yesterday.

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

Floods and ice around New Zealand are hitting school holiday travel plans.

One in three motorists will drive further to buy cheaper fuel, according to a nationwide survey of our service station habits.

These places will prove to be the cherry on top of your Otago holiday.

An investigation has begun after allegations a female prison officer at the Otago Corrections Facility had a relationship with a male prisoner.

Members of the Dunedin police force scaled the world's steepest street, Baldwin St, with the torch marking 75th anniversary of women in the police force

Nearly $60,000 was spent rescuing 38 people stranded after their 4WD vehicles became trapped in snow in Central Otago.

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Study shows that Aucklanders are most likely to have experienced road rage than any other city.

A Canadian wept as he was sentenced today for careless driving causing the death of an 81-year-old woman near Owaka.

Investigators seek cause of overnight blazes.

Jock Davies looks like any other sports-mad Kiwi kid, but behind his youthful grin is courage aplenty.

All Blacks greeted with a powerful haka by local high schools on their arrival in Dunedin Airport for their last test match against Wales

Two men plucked from Lake Wakatipu after an ill-equipped attempt to go camping on an island are lucky to be alive, Queenstown's harbourmaster says.

A firefighter rescued a woman from a tree in a flooded Otago river after a boating accident.

Amisfield is one of Queenstown's best-known wineries, and its bistro was started as a way to showcase and support its unique wine in 2005.

Alarm after tuberculosis-positive cow discovered at his farm.

A week of planning and two days of hard graft using a bulldozer was what it took to free 13 4WD vehicles stuck in the snow for a fortnight up the Old Man Range.

Owners were reported to be attempting to retrieve their snow-buried cars today, but no progress has been made.

Driving past the orchards, wineries and small agricultural towns of Otago brought to mind trips through California's Central Valley.

Seven people have been injured, three seriously, in a crash north of Makarora this afternoon.

Clothing hanging too close to an open fire is the likely cause of a house fire near Portobello on Monday night.