A couple are lucky to have escaped injury after a power pole fell on to their property.

Police say they are closing in on fugitive rapper Scribe, who is wanted on drug charges.

Police issued appeal for information about the 38-year-old's whereabouts.

Dunedin resident John Sheppard was among many worrying about the contamination.

Council issued a boil water notice covering a swath of the central city and north end.

Anything touched by tap water was either turned off or thrown out yesterday.

Chelsea Evans weeps when she thinks about never being able to say goodbye to her cat.

Canterbury Police are urging motorists to slow down.

Lauren Jones takes a week-long roadie that crams in heaps of South Island beauty spots.

An inexplicable theft in the Te Moana Gorge could leave travellers caught short.

Tekapo, Mount Cook, Wanaka, Queenstown and Dunedin, crammed into a one-minute video. Footage: Supplied by Lauren Jones. Read the full article here.

Dunedin City Council has warned people not to drink water across large parts of the city.

Four people were on a plane that crashed at Queenstown Airport.

Eyes of the glass and real variety will be fixed on an unusual sight at a Dunedin auction.

Three brothers were rescued eight hours after their ute became stuck in a flooded river.

The earthquake-crippled Christ Church Cathedral could be gifted to the Government.

Kim Dotcom has spent the weekend in Queenstown house-hunting.

A house fire in Christchurch this morning has left one person dead.

First leader brave enough to share welfare story but has come under attack for doing so.

Meth with a street value of $84k and three Harley-Davidson motorcycles seized in raid.

Family of 6-year-old girl raped by stoned teenager have 'forgiven' her rapist.

CCTV captures knife-wielding woman stealing cigarettes from terrified dairy manager.

Parents of a Motueka toddler who went missing yesterday have thanked searchers.

Man who brutally bashed his estranged wife has lost his bid to have his sentence reduced.

Call to #FreeTheWeetabix will go to the High Court, after Sanitarium filed papers.

Go Bus admitted an error in judgment, but deny bus incidents were related.

Former Dunedin television presenter Craig Storey has avoided jail time.

Dunedin surgeons demand apology and warn to expect "more bad news" if crisis not averted.

A woman has claimed on social media that she was 'so sorry' for the incident on Saturday.

Forty per cent of NZ's highways have a 2-star safety rating, which the AA wants improved.