Doug Sherring fulfils a lifelong ambition on Wanaka's pristine backcountry slopes.

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.

Rachel Glucina turns her attention to frocks on the rocks at Queenstown's Winter Festival.