Who We Are: David Fisher and videographer Mark Mitchell spent a month driving round NZ in a campervan. Their mission: to find out what it means to be a Kiwi.

Search and rescue teams looking for a missing hunter near Balclutha have called in search dogs tonight.

Crusaders fans may be hurting tonight but one Christchurch man will be counting his lucky stars after winning $25,000 cash at the game.

Emergency services are attending a suspicious house fire in Christchurch. Fire broke out at an unoccupied house in is the suburb

Christchurch Police are looking for four drift trikes stolen in a recent burglary in Christchurch.

The Bachelor NZ will take up the dating game again since dumping winner Fleur Verhoeven, after being bought at a charity auction.

A man arrested on Friday night and then given bail on Saturday morning went on an alleged crime spree in Christchurch, Oamaru and Dunedin.

Two publicly-owned companies spearheading the city's rebuild have average salary rates in excess of $120,000.

Since the earthquakes, the cost of building new homes in Canterbury has risen by nearly 40 per cent.

Christchurch has always been dubbed the most English city outside of England, but the earthquakes claimed many buildings promoting that brand.

A Central Otago man craving chocolate was so angry a vending machine failed to produce the goods, he turned to his Black and Decker grinder.

Fire crews are attending a large fire in central Christchurch early this evening.

Thunderstorms which hammered some parts of the North Island will be easing today but strong winds and rain will linger.

The North Island is bearing the brunt of stormy weather as heavy rain falls across the island.

A speeding car crashed off a Dunedin motorway while its driver was fleeing from police tonight.

A bus has been blown off the road by gale force winds in Burkes Pass near Fairlie in the South Island.

Batten down the hatches, strong winds that blew a bus and a motorcyclist off the road today are set to continue.

Veteran activist John Minto has put up his hand to run against Lianne Dalziel for the Christchurch mayoralty.

A man caught masturbating at a teenage girls' softball game has been sentenced to 12-months intensive supervision.

Canterbury motorists and truckies need to plan for another week of night-time Lyttelton Tunnel delays.

A forensic team is inspecting a unit in Dunedin as police investigate the unexplained death of a man.

A Christchurch man who tried to "blackmail" a woman into meeting him by posting a naked photo of her on Instagram has been warned by a judge that he could go to jail.

Name suppression has today lapsed for a Mexican man charged over the biggest cocaine bust in New Zealand history.

Two car crashes on an icy South Island highway have left seven people injured this morning.

Syrian refugees sang and danced in the aisles of a train on an "awesome" trip across the Otago countryside yesterday.

The Christchurch kebab shop owner who ignored an armed robber says he told himself: "try to be cool as much as you can".

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

Awaroa Beach has become part of the Abel Tasman National Park after 40,000 Kiwis raised the money to buy it.

Awaroa Beach becomes part of Abel Tasman National Park today after 40,000 Kiwis raised money to buy it - but local Maori want Govt to hand it on to them.

The NZTA has warned motorists about ice on South Island roads today, and about a final night of delays tonight for Canterbury drivers.