Police are concerned for the welfare of a boat owner who left their small, red yacht moored on Lake Benmore in the South Island a

A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a car on the road south of Cardrona near Queenstown.

Alpine Pure last year renewed its consents with the West Coast Regional Council, and has applied to do the same with the Westland District Council.

A serious crash has the Buller Highway down to one lane.

The last weekend of holidays for most is shaping up as a mixed bag of fine spells and patchy showers as a front moves across the country.

Controversial pipeline would carry water under land and the seabed, pumped into ocean tankers.

Two people are being airlifted to hospital following a two car crash in Geraldine.

Police are looking for a South African tourist who has gone missing down south.

Tihioterangi Rei Edgecombe had spent December 31 last year fixing a car when he decided to see how it was running.

An Irishman's round the world solo sailing race has come to an abrupt end after his mast collapsed while 180 nautical miles south of New Zealand.

Bad weather and the risk of rockfalls has forced the closure of State Highway 1 south of Kaikoura.

A motorist is dead after a single car crash south of Christchurch this afternoon.

Police have released the name of the man killed in a fatal crash just out of Christchurch on New Year's Eve.

Big swells predicted to surge up the eastern side of New Zealand from Kaikoura to north of Mahia Peninsula

A knife-wielding man wearing a balaclava tried to steal cigarettes and cash from a Nelson service station this morning.

Boy racers black out an intersection with tyre skidmarks.

New Zealand is in for a wet day with just the northern tip of the country resembling summer.

A pyrotechnics expert says industry will keep close tabs on investigation into how a Dunedin man suffered a severe eye injury during NY fireworks display.

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A man is facing being blind in one eye after he was struck with debris at Dunedin's public New Year's Eve Display.

The Fire Service is responding to multiple reports of a grass fire in Christchurch.

Firefighters are battling three scrub fires near Blenheim this afternoon.

Lynn Paterson has been paddling for 130 days around the coast of New Zealand.

Party-goers who attended an unauthorised event on Lake Wanaka's Ruby Island claim safety was paramount.

Sacha Baron Cohen and his actress wife Isla Fisher are the latest celebrities to usher in the New Year in New Zealand.

Any of the drunken teens who partied on a Wanaka island yesterday could have drowned, say despairing authorities.

How narcissistic are Kiwis?

Springs Junction - the tiny settlement connecting State Highways 7 and 65 - now boasts two food caravans as well as a service station and cafe both operating 24/7.

A 24-year-old man who hadn't been seen or heard from since Tuesday has now been found.

A search and rescue operation is under way in the Mt Aspiring National Park after a distress beacon was activated.