The mum searching for her son's stolen ashes has been going to pawn shops in a bid to find clues.

A grateful community says thanks to the volunteer firefighters who fought the recent blazes in Christchurch.

It'll be a beautiful day in most parts of the North Island today.

NBC television journalist and host has bought property near Queenstown.

A Dunedin man has been jailed for attempted murder.

Thousands have reported feeling the two big quakes in Canterbury.

Witnesses said the Givealittle recipient came close to hitting several children playing on the footpath.

Police are appealing for help to identify this man following a break-in at a liquor store in Invercargill.

Lotto winner so stunned on learning of his change in fortune, he pushed an empty trolley around a supermarket for an hour - and bought nothing.

Kurt Bayer went to the Gumboot Throwing Champs as a reporter, and left a champ.

A jetboater has gone viral on social media after posting a misadventure in his boat on Facebook.

Some parts of the country might feel hot season never arrived this time

A Christchurch couple have been the victims of a brutal attack after a music festival.

While autumn starts this week, summery weather is expected to continue for a while.

A crowd funding page has been set up to raise a reward, after a brutal horse death in Burwood.

Christchurch residents are being asked to conserve water while water levels are restored following the Port Hills fires.

A person was unloading goods when they were hit by another truck in Christchurch.

The Kiwi snowboarder, who died in a Japan avalanche is remembered as a caring man with infectious energy.

Fears have been raised that motorists might fail to recognise a 3-D crossing in North Dunedin, putting pedestrians at risk.

There've been no flare-ups overnight following a lakeside scrub fire at Wanaka, which sent huge fireballs into the sky.

A lakeside Wanaka scrub fire that was shooting "huge, big fireballs" into the sky has now been contained.

A woman was able to flee a sexually motivated assault, by biting the man who was attacking her.

Effort to cap rates didn't quite work out as planned this year.

Plummeting numbers of drivers caught speeding in the South Island have coincided with the deadliest year on southern roads in a decade.

Two US passengers from the cruise ship remain in Christchurch Hospital.

The giant November 2016 earthquake has snapped the top decks from a sunken Soviet cruise liner in the Marlborough Sounds.

A major hydroponic cannabis growing operation, with more than 800 plants, has been found by police in South Canterbury.

These sisters will grow up wondering what their big brother would have been like.

Name suppression granted for man accused of almost severing victim's hand.

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.