A Queenstown company has been charged by WorkSafe New Zealand.

When 28 firearms and 22,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen, police had to act quickly.

Make the most of today because the weather's set to pack in again tomorrow.

The body of the man found in a South Canterbury River has been identified.

Premiums are high for people seeking houses in zones for certain schools.

We may be saying goodbye to winter - for a few days at least.

A youth prisoner assaulted two staff on a domestic transfer flight.

A second South Canterbury dairy farm has tested positive for Mycoplasma bovis

The meat processor will review its unprofitable beef plant in Gore.

Early risers were met with frost, fog and icy windscreens this morning.

South Canterbury farm at the centre of the outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis has been named.

It is the third one to cause problems.

A flurry of snow has started falling, kicking off a blisteringly cold weekend.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after his car rolled down a bank near Little Akaloa.

Gerry Brownlee's challenger in Ilam says it would kickstart the city's regeneration.

Bromfield School in Amberley keeping kids inside at the request of police.

Accident investigators discovered helicopter pilot had been briefed on 'flying standards'.

Selling your vehicle in Christchurch on the side of the road could soon be illegal.

Helicopters are being used to muster Kaikoura seals away from quake-repair zones.

Tekapo has been cut off to traffic as snow and ice close a number of South Island roads.

Clean up yet to begin for some South Island residents as water levels yet to recede.

People are using Facebook to rip-off unsuspecting consumers, police say.

A man who "lost his rag" at a WINZ office has pleaded guilty for "speaking threateningly".

Below the surface of New Zealand's glowing job growth statistics lies a darker world.

A "couple of bangs" outside house turned out to be a massive slip on the Otago coast.

Parts of country still coping with calamitous weather about to be walloped again.

MPI is working with a dairy farmer to contain a disease detected for the first time in NZ.

Two penguin carcasses have been discovered after a slip swept away nesting boxes.

A Southland man who crashed on a South Otago road, killing his wife, has been convicted.

Summerset Group has bought land to build a third retirement village in Christchurch.