Focus Live: The Floodwater has receded but the ordeal is not over for thousands of evacuated southland locals. Civil Defence group chairman Neville Cook explains. Video / William Patino Photography / High Country Helicopters / NZTA
Cars and homes flooded after Mataura River surges through the town.
Designated sober driver had taken ecstasy prior to driving.
Southland begins to enter recovery mode from a massive flooding event.
Authorities are telling people in Southland not to be complacent about evacuating.
The chemicals, stored at an old paper mill, sit right by the river.
Some families were forced to wade through waist-high water to safety.
While some tourists were helicoptered out today, others remain stranded overnight.
Gibbston woman describes how slip sounded like thunder.
About 100 trampers are being rescued by helicopter from Fiordland today.
Rescue teams mustered this morning for evacuation of tourists.
Two suspected deaths and dozen of cases linked to the hidden hazard in potting mix.
The third stage of the Remarkables View subdivision is currently for sale.
Clarke Gayford discovers feral backpackers and secret recipes on the wild West Coast.
The men were reported missing on Thursday but a search party was delayed by bad weather.
Yesterday, Gisborne topped the charts at a whopping 38.2C, its hottest day since 1940.
The Dunedin man was 'self-medicating' with the drug, court hears.
After drinking bottles of cider, accused was covered in excrement from a blocked toilet.
A vehicle hurtled about 50m down a steep bank on a remote 4WD track.
One vehicle ended up on its roof in the rail crossing crash.
A teenage flasher caught by a police dog in Christchurch dog park
The vehicle lost control and crashed in flames, killing all three occupants.
Yesterday's announcement by the government has left South Island mayors disappointed
A man believed to be a resident of a motor camp was arrested by armed police today.
Vinnie Beecroft's body was recovered after he went missing off the coast of Dunedin.
South Island residents have shared harrowing photos of smoke from Australia's bushfires.
Reefton-based distilling company is eyeing export to Australia and Britain.
Rescue helicopter from Wellington has taken one person to Nelson Hospital.
Provisional numbers show 353 people died in 301 crashes last year.
Police believe it is that of the 23-year-old man who failed to surface yesterday.
Police believe it is the 14-year-old, who failed to return to shore three days ago.
There are reports of a jetboat crash on the Kawarau River outside of Queenstown.
"It would have been pretty hard for a local to have kept it real quiet ..."
Search for teen who went missing in Dunedin waters yesterday has resumed.