Plans to build a new health hub and maternity unit in the central city, which were scrapped because of asbestos contamination, may still go ahead.

A wooden fence post fell off the back of a truck and went through the windscreen of a vehicle the driver was passing.

Six years after the September 2010 earthquake, the Hororata community is still in the dark about when its badly damaged heritage church will be restored.

About 100 farmers in Otago and Southland were forced to dump milk over the weekend in the aftermath of the milk silo collapse at Fonterra's Edendale site.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A search operation was mounted after people were feared missing in a Christchurch river from a car wreck.

A Dunedin youth advocate has hit out at Child, Youth and Family after young offenders have had to spend time in police cells.

Police were called to reports of disorder following a large student party in the Dunedin Botanic Garden yesterday.

A vehicle driven the wrong way on a Christchurch street was the reason behind a reported police chase early this morning.

A man is appearing in Timaru District Court on Monday charged over a double stabbing that left one critically injured.

Police are looking to speak to a woman driver involved in a bike vs vehicle crash in Invercargill on Friday evening.

The grandmother of a disabled Christchurch boy who has a hard time making friends has desperately appealed for other children to attend his fifth birthday party.

Andrew Grubb was a "top bloke" who excelled at every sport he tried and always had a smile on his face, friends and workmates said.

Two women have been arrested after the armed offenders squad blocked off part of Maitland St in Dunedin this afternoon.

A man was taken to hospital after being beaten up with a baseball bat outside a South Island cemetery.

The 102-year-old Pioneer Statue, re-sited this week in Hokitika, is now facing a different direction than the original.

The Christchurch community has rallied around the grandmother of a special needs boy who's never been invited to a birthday party.

Jack Lopas has just returned from the World Rowing Junior Championships with a gold medal hanging around his neck, and he is straight into NCEA study.

Queenstown's top cop is failing to front after officers were caught cherry-picking what they're telling the media.

A man who claims his car was stolen, crashed it himself while drink driving before fleeing the scene, police allege.

It'll cost you up to $10,000 a night, but you will get million dollar views. A new hotel complex has been completed in Queenstown

The cash-strapped Canterbury District Health Board's money problems have got worse.

Elisabeth Easther finds a small South Island town that rocks and regularly dances.

One person has died after a crash near the Southland town of Mataura this evening.

On an insider tour of Dunedin's hidden treasures, Eleanor Ainge Roy discovers the other Edinburgh deserves a second glance.

A Sydney man proposed to his girlfriend moments after their helicopter crashed near Queenstown this week.

Police have found a body within the scene of the commercial premises destroyed by fire last night at Franz Josef.

A father and daughter pleaded guilty to incest when they appeared in the Dunedin District Court this afternoon.

A proposed gondola to the Franz Josef Glacier is winning early support from West Coast tourism interests.

A fisherman on a burning boat grounded the vessel on rocks before leaping to safety near Dunedin yesterday afternoon.