A terminally ill Roxburgh man who shot his wife of 43 years because she was leaving him has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Two 22-year-olds who failed to report from a rafting trip on the Taieri River in Otago have been found safe and well.

Tourists heading for the snow this winter will be able to get extra flexibility from a scheme run by South Island skifields.

Sarah Payne knows exactly where her best friend, Jane Bishop, made the fateful decision...

Police in Wanaka are determined to "get to the bottom" of a series of incidents involving a naked man engaging in...

Shareholders of Dairy Holdings Ltd, which owns 58 dairy farms in the South Island, have bought shares owned by the collapsed South Canterbury Finance.

A good Samaritan who helped rescue a mother and her toddler from Otago Harbour yesterday watched...

They've no idea what to make of the strange people who have appeared on the far riverbank....

Concerns over incompetent teachers and staff bullying has contributed to a Dunedin school losing around 80 per cent of its students on the first day. One parent believed the school was "stuffed"...

The bouncer accused of leaking video footage of England rugby captain Mike Tindall's infamous night in Queenstown has been charged with a violent assault that left a young man in an induced coma.

This Jacobean mansion was designed by London architect Sir Ernest George, and broke all the rules in colonial innovation.

Dunedin's lesser-known stately home is surprisingly progressive as well as pretty, finds Kate Roff.