The three tourists from Hong Kong were killed when their rental van and a truck and trailer unit collided in Central Otago.

Three people killed in a horror smash in Central Otago this afternoon were all foreign nationals, police say.

Josie Dale contemplates the dark green silence of the Matukituki Valley.

A Maheno teenager is fighting for his life after being struck by a milk tanker near Maheno in Otago early yesterday.

The fire, along the ridge of the Maungatua Hill Range, forced the evacuation of a number of properties on nearby McKendry Rd this morning.

A male pedestrian was hit by a truck and seriously injured on State Highway 1 in Otago last night.

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A teenage girl felt so guilty about having sex with a neighbour more than 20 years her age that she labelled herself "a home wrecker" when she was 15, a court was told.

Andrew Louis lives like a king in a deluxe suite.

Somebody call Guinness World Records - we think Otago club batsman Callum Egen deserves a spot in the book.

Friends of a boy buried beneath a mound of dirt ran to neighbouring homes to ask for help yesterday.

Senior students went to the rescue of a year 9 rowing team when their skiff was hit by a powerboat driven by a coach in Otago Harbour this morning.

Dunedin musician Mike Moroney was "a little bit dumbstruck" when he arrived home on Wednesday evening to find that burglars had stolen seven of his stringed musical instruments.

A North Otago man beaten to death had earlier told friends he feared he would be knee-capped over a drug deal gone wrong, a court was told.

A Chinese tourist had her rental car contract torn up and rewritten by a rental company yesterday after she was pulled over for alleged dangerous driving.

The body of a 65-year-old cyclist has been recovered from a bank near an Otago cycle track today.

From high-end Asian street food-inspired dishes to pizzas that have been popular for almost 40 years, Queenstown's food scene has something for everyone.

"Another kick in the teeth for the family", is how the father of teenager William Lewis has described a parole hearing for his son's killer.

A man who choked his victim in the toilet of a Dunedin bar has been sentenced to five years in prison, for the manslaughter of Ryan Court.

As an inquest begins into the death of Rutger Hale from a mystery object that smashed through his car windscreen, his family say they believe someone knows what happened.

Reaching the peak is easy when you have snowshoes, discovers Andrew Louis.

One of two suspects sought after a police pursuit in Central Otago a week ago involving a driver who fled at 140km/h, swerving past road spikes, is a man in a wheelchair.

They were meant to relocate a blackbird's nest and eggs from a central Dunedin traffic light. Instead the contractors dropped the eggs.