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Lost tourist broke basic tramping rules
An English tourist spent a cold night in the bush after "breaking several basic rules for tramping", police say.
An English tourist spent a cold night in the bush after "breaking several basic rules for tramping", police say.
Police in the South Island are investigating two serious assaults overnight.
Five fire crews are at the scene of a blaze that appears to have broken out in a campervan in Christchurch.
WorkSafe has decided not to prosecute Landcorp for the quadbike death of a Westport dairy assistant a year ago.
Ninety eight Canterbury homeowners have won a landmark settlement with EQC.
This year's Wildfoods Festival has been a roaring success, finishing with a $20,000 surplus.
The trial of Simon Reeve, the first person to be charged under new CAA drone rules, heard evidence from a TV reporter.
SPCA Otago posted an SOS to its 7000 Facebook followers late this afternoon after it was told by an elderly couple they could not remember where they parked their car.
Senior Sergeant Brian Benn, of Dunedin, said police were called to attend the crash at the 8000ha Hukarere Station near Tapanui just after noon.
Firefighters are battling a vegetation blaze close to houses near Christchurch this evening.
A Seacliff man charged with murder has been returned to Wakari Hospital in Dunedin for two days, although he was earlier discharged.
A 12-year-old boy has been airlifted to hospital after breaking his leg when a piggyback from his father went awry.
Canterbury Police said the body was located on Drain Rd, Doyleston, south of Christchurch, earlier today.
Lianne Dalziel said she was forced to admit she was running again, after she was asked directly by an elderly resident at today's Anzac service.
Sunny skies have been forecast for most parts of the country tomorrow but don't forget to bring a jacket to morning Anzac parades.
An alleged drink driver has been charged with mowing down a Christchurch pedestrian on Good Friday.
Two people are dead and five others have been injured in a two-car smash near Twizel.
Two people are dead and five others have been injured in a two-car smash near Twizel in the South Island tonight.
A Fire Service spokesman said firefighters from Invercargill Station were called to a house fire in Ettrick St at 5.40pm.
Police are after a "short, tubby" middle-aged man who indecently assaulted a 14-year-old girl near a school today.
An Otago father spent an hour in the sea preventing a jet ski, with two distraught children on board, from smashing into rocks after its battery went flat.
A Herald investigation into the hidden toll of the Christchurch earthquakes has sparked calls for research into the correlation between suicides and the quakes.
Police were called out to a rest home on Harewood road around 6pm, after a 62-year-old man attacked staff with a walking frame.
A fuel tanker driver escaped without major injuries after his vehicle rolled in Southland this morning.
An English consulting firm will receive more than $150,000 for work that includes running "listening sessions'' for the Southern DHB.
Are you heading out to buy a Lotto ticket for tonight's $22 million draw? Well you might want to head to one of NZ's luckiest stores.
Police said the 73-year-old man was injured at the car park of Mt Nicholas Station, near Queenstown.
"We're just getting prepared for a breakfast trade," says publican. "We've already got two eggs and a sausage on a plate, we don't need anymore."