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.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the accident, near Kinloch, just after 1pm.

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.

People affected by fires may be entitled to free doctor visits.

Breeding colony of 2000 seals north of Kaikoura at risk as part of SH1 rebuild.

COMMENT: Yesterday our nation paused just before one o'clock to remember.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

Rider dies after motorcycle crash in the Tasman District.

Development West Coast chairman John Sturgeon has had his term cut short by four months.

Cops are warning of a serial masturbator in Queenstown.

COMMENT: Today we mourn but let's also look forward to a new Christchurch as it becomes our most beautiful city.

A terrible season with persistent rain, little sunshine and depressed prices is proving to be "the perfect storm" for stressed West Coast farmers.

Reporter Georgina Campbell was sent down to Christchurch to help cover the Port Hills fires. Here she tells what she saw.

The person who died in a crash on State Highway 1 just out of Blenheim on Sunday was local teenager Lara Jayne Glover, police have confirmed.

A man is in police custody after an incident in Taieri Mouth in which another man was injured in what was believed to be a machete attack.