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.

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.

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.

Encouraging a mother to spit on her baby may not sound like good science, but it is the basis of a world-first study in NZ.

Dunedin student pub The Garden Tavern, known as Gardies, will close its doors for the final time this weekend after being sold to Otago University this year.