Two people have been freed after they were trapped in their vehicles in a crash at Timaru.

Two rental cars were broken into and $25,000 worth of cash and property stolen at Hokitika Gorge on Saturday.

Whoever brutally assaulted a Dunedin pensioner is still at large.

A motorcyclist who died after colliding with a car in Otago on Saturday has been named.

One person is dead after a car was discovered submerged in a culvert near Balfour, Southland.

The person who brutally assaulted a Dunedin pensioner is still at large and she is asking why police let the case go cold so quickly.

A motorcyclist was critically injured in a crash with a car in Otago this afternoon.

Professional cyclist Keagan Girdlestone came close to death in a crash in Italy. He has made enough progress to return to Christchurch to continue rehabilitation.

This friendly town is a fabulous place from which to explore the Catlins.

A Queenstown youth wrote the threatening note that caused a bomb scare at the resort's airport last month.

The mercury is dropping but Sarah Lawrence's spirits are rising as she heads south.

An injured Brit who spent two freezing nights under ferns in rugged West Coast bush says he survived on just an apple.

The three men who allegedly attacked two brothers in Christchurch early Sunday morning have been found.

Police are hunting for a knife-wielding assailant who attempted to rob the Highgate Dairy, on Highgate, Dunedin, tonight.

A search and rescue is under way for a 28-year-old Englishman who has been missing at Paparoa National Park since Saturday night.

The woman's small green Ford collided with a black Mitsubishi Mirage at the Barbadoes-Hereford Sts intersection in Christchurch at 11.37am.

Kiwis are being urged to get behind a global crowdfunding project to save a critically endangered New Zealand seabird.

Fire chiefs will consider pamphleting short-term visitor accommodation such as Airbnb after a fire gutted a Queenstown holiday let.

A new development joined to a historic hotel is set to become NZ's most expensive new hotel room rate at $10k a night.

Watch: Once a month, photographer Olivia Spencer-Bower will be recording as the workers slowly breathe life back into the Town Hall.

An event in Christchurch has kick-started the celebration of nation-wide access radio celebration campaign, The Big Listen.

A rebuild firm that is trying to repair and restore the historic Peterborough Apartments has taken its insurance company to court.

City councillor David East has resigned from a working party negotiating with opponents to a controversial alcohol policy.

A Wanaka man has been charged with ill-treating an animal after a cat was shot.

Commercial leasing agencies are seeing more incentives creeping into the market to bring tenants back into the central city.

Three elderly people were needlessly injured in a police pursuit that should have been abandoned earlier, the Independent Police Conduct

Canterbury drivers are the top offenders in the country when it comes to using their mobile phones and not wearing their seat belts.

A second road tunnel between Christchurch and Lyttelton will be needed in about 20 years due to growth in freight transport, the port boss says.

More anguish lies ahead for families of the 115 people killed in the collapse of the CTV building - this time over what is done with the rubble.

After beating cancer three times, Sarah is going on a road trip to the West Coast on scooters to raise money for the Cancer Society of New Zealand.