A Queenstown hotel is shortlisted for one of the world's top interior design awards.

The tempest is over and now the country enjoys a spell of fine weather.

Man admits charges after ordering his dog to savagely attack publican in West Coast bar

COMMENT: The Cathedral has been left to rot for the past six years, six years too long.

An explosion that killed a person was so violent if shook nearby houses.

Roads are closed and Cook Strait crossings suspended as wild weather wallops country.

Police say father and husband Kurt Sturgess is believed to have been in the vehicle.

Police are offering rewards for anyone who has information on black-market tobacco.

A former prison counsellor who posted about ex-girlfriend's abusive mother gets convicted.

Since 2015, the Riccarton bus lounge had been a hot-spot for trouble-causing youths.

From today an active front will begin to cross the South Island, moving north.

His wife suffered pellet wounds to her abdomen and arm when she was shot.

Thieves are targeting everything from razor blades, meat, clothing, to petrol and tobacco.

A woman has died in a workplace accident in Rolleston.

A crashed tanker proved impossible to move from State Highway 6 in South Westland.

One snow-mad family went to extreme lengths to be first on the slopes at The Remarkables

Parents forced to keep kids out of school because they do not have enough food for them.

New tourism data has revealed Christchurch is back on the itinerary for tourists.

The body of missing Rangiora man Bill Crowe has been found.

Couple say the waving from their winery neighbours is causing them stress.

Massive police probe into builder's disappearance will focus on a Canterbury rubbish dump.

Two people are trapped after a car plunged 70m down a bank in the Rakaia Gorge.

Boney M outraged fans when they opened their tour of NZ with a 50-minute concert.

Troy Taylor said infant Ihaka Stokes had fallen over and banged his head. He hadn't.

A South Dunedin jeweller has been traumatised after being robbed by a masked gunman.

Rosie Crozier, 21, died in a two-car crash on the Waimate Highway on Queens Birthday.

It's been part of the city's history for so long, now you have a chance to own a piece.

Emergency workers respond to incident where a large piece of steel framing has collapsed.

The OIO hasn't received an application from reported buyer of Harvard's NZ dairy farms.

Midge-plagued Bromley residents want out a solution to a problem getting worse every year.