A farmer wants TrustPower to check its lines after eight cows died when a 33kV line dropped on his farm.

One of the country's oldest pubs, Central Otago's historic Cardrona Hotel, is on the market again.

On the day DHB fraudster Michael Swann was sentenced police found a boat hidden in a shed.

NZ scientists have recreated the face of a 2500-year-old Turkish peasant with technology they hope could be used in court in coming years.

After nine days at the bottom of a 60m cliff without food or water, Rusty the collie rewarded his rescuer by almost licking him to death.

Police searching for missing 40-year-old Dunedin woman Gayle Dianne Heath have found a body.

Queenstown schools are closed with drivers urged to take extreme care on central South Island roads after heavy snow fell in the area, with more expected.

A notorious student pub in Dunedin closed to avoid riotous farewell celebrations at tonight's All Blacks test match.