As Govt announces its relief package, Kaikoura businesses spell out what they need to survive.

Port of Malborough expects to find out today whether the ferry terminal building at Picton is structurally sound.

Picton man Rob Burn captured a telling photo of a collapsed shop front in Picton. Twisted metal and bricks from the shop's façade

Interislander ferry sailings have been cancelled, along with all trains on the North Island Main Trunk Line south of Palmerston North.

Scott Watson has always claimed he is innocent of the murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

A group of Scott Watson supporters today began a series of marches to highlight their case that he is wrongly imprisoned for the Marlborough Sounds murders.

A man has been rescued by helicopter after his float plane crashed in the Marlborough Sounds this evening. The Nelson Marlborough

A Picton businessman is fighting to put the picturesque Marlborough township - quite literally - on the map.

A message in a bottle found in the Chatham Islands has helped solve the mystery of another letter in a bottle found on Nelson's Boulder Bank more than a decade ago.

A mystery yacht found on the sea floor of the Picton Harbour could be the Sioux - an uninsured $150,000 vessel which went missing five years ago.

The penguin, dubbed "Shazbot" by one of her rescuers, was found lying by the road near Port Underwood in Marlborough.

The fire service was called to the scene of a suspected gas leak at the Picton ferry terminal last night.

The Interislander Arahura ferry's replacement will go into service this spring, bearing the new name of Kaiarahi.

Three boats were seized and three men arrested after police found a 25kg cannabis stash on a yacht in Waikawa Bay in the Marlborough Sounds.

A decision not to move the interisland ferry terminal from Picton to Clifford Bay has resulted in KiwiRail land being sold to a wine grower.

Soaring to 1000m above sea level, out of control, vomiting, and heading for the Pacific Ocean, Howard Hudson thought he was going to die.

Firefighters have contained a large bush fire that came dangerously close to destroying the main power feed between the North and South Islands.

Residents of a Picton house escaped injury today when a landslip hit their home and broke through a wall, as torrential rain lashed central New Zealand today.

A decision to keep the South Island ferry terminal base in Picton has been met with celebration in the Marlborough town.

Picton will remain as the southern terminal for the interisland ferries, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee announced today.

Two teens were sexually assaulted during a Picton home invasion, and a West Coast woman was attacked while she slept, in two separate attacks early on Sunday morning.

The trip on the Interislander is possibly the country's most beautiful ride. That's about to change if the Government proceeds with plans to shift the South Island ferry terminal to a windswept beach that looks like Dunkirk.

A police officer is in hospital with serious facial injuries after a man he arrested attacked him in Picton this morning.

Two people facing murder charges after the death of a woman in Picton will reappear later this month.

Two people arrested and charged with the murder of a 43-year-old Picton woman yesterday will appear in court today.