Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

The principal of an elite Australian Catholic college has suspended a group of boys allegedly involved in a $6000 theft spree in Queenstown.

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.