As you drive up the long tree-lined road into Millbrook Resort, you get the eerie sensation that you're leaving the world behind you.

A woman police constable has been bashed on the head and her partner bitten in Alexandra.

Waikato, with Stephen Donald and Mils Muliaina playing key roles, have overwhelmed a hapless Otago tonight.

Environmental artist Martin Hill says he tends to get more pleasure from personal experiences than from tangible objects.

Allowing brothels to operate near playgrounds, schools or churches in central Otago resort towns is "unacceptable", a lobby group says.

The only girl in a rugby tournament of over 400 players is first named "man" of the match, and then in the tournament team.

Sonny Bill Williams returns to the Canterbury starting 15 but not at second five in Saturday's match against Otago.

If wine had a personality, pinot noir's would be strangely alluring while requiring occasional therapy.

Four University of Otago researchers are believed to be the first to isolate and photograph the Rubidium 85 atom.