The group became rowdier and continued to use obscene language, directed at others.

Since 2006, the driver has racked up three convictions for careless driving.

Police want to speak to two women and a man in a cowboy hat after sexual assault.

Hearing her speak for the first time following the incident was "just wonderful".

Haast crash injures five.

A small-town school has four empty classroom and has lost 80 students in four years following local job losses.

Credit Union South has confirmed the closure of its last West Coast branch, in Greymouth, from the end of the month.

A fine gold bracelet with a heart-shaped locket was lost during the assault.

A woman who stole a cellphone from the Greymouth Courthouse office stood in the court dock yesterday to admit the theft.

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A Dunedin shopkeeper fears she will witness another fatal crash.

Six per cent of New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguin's have been treated.

Experts will examine human remains found last week in a crevasse.

A 29 per cent chance of a big "surface rupturing" quake within next 50 years.

A woman seriously injured in a hit and run incident and remains in a coma in Dunedin Hospital.

Queenstown police drafted in officers from Wanaka and Alexandra to help shut down a rowdy party more than 300 people attended.

It's going to be a wet in the North Island but best get the woollies out if you head down south.

Scary dashcam footage has been filmed by a South Island truckie, highlighting the dangerous driving of some Kiwis on our rural roads.

Manapouri man had left for the Falls Dam area yesterday but failed to return.

Three experienced divers went for a dive this morning but one did not surface.

A rescue helicopter has been sent to the scene where a hang glider has crashed into a cliff in Canterbury.

Foreign buyers are flocking to this NZ town, sending prices skywards in the formerly sleepy area.

Police have released CCTV footage of a robbery at a store in Christchurch - the seventh time it has been hit in the last seven months.

A man has died after a crash in Mid Canterbury this morning.

Senior Constable says three anonymous letters about Middlemarch residents have been written with a "poison pen".

Henry the wily rooster dodged a bullet yesterday and had his deadline extended.

One trapped after car crashes right behind fire station.

Two men are lucky to be alive after they emergency landed a helicopter in rough terrain on the Southern Alps.

Preloading party-goers are causing the lion's share of trouble for police.