Named for a local tribe, a branch of the Waitaha people, and Ngati Mamoe.

Police are seeking information about an assault in a Nelson suburb last night.

One in three motorists will drive further to buy cheaper fuel, according to a nationwide survey of our service station habits.

A large low pressure system from the Tasman Sea is moving slowly across northern New Zealand during the next few days.

A 30-year-old man will appear in Dunedin District Court tomorrow morning over an alleged sex assault on a man.

These places will prove to be the cherry on top of your Otago holiday.

This afternoon on NZ Herald Focus - New drone footage of the damage inside the ChristChurch Cathedral.

Uto Enosi Tuipulotu came to Akaroa to support his family back in Tonga, but now is in Christchurch Hospital battling a rare form of cancer.

This week, we look at sevens player Sam Dickson and his miraculous return from injury.

Firefighters fear a person may be trapped inside a rural North Canterbury home that is engulfed by fire.

Northern and central regions of the North Island can expect to be shrouded in fog with some areas not seeing daylight until lunchtime.

Two people are injured after a car hit a parked car outside a Christchurch dairy.

A boy who fell from school playground equipment has escaped serious injury.

Members of the Dunedin police force scaled the world's steepest street, Baldwin St, with the torch marking 75th anniversary of women in the police force

Kaitangata, the small NZ town with big international interest, has been forced to halt its cheap property offers.

Once the fog clears, scattered showers will set in.

Across the country the average temperature was 10.2C making it the warmest June on record.

DOC had to shoot a fur seal pup after someone put it on the back of a motorbike while skylarking on the Hokitika beach

A 38-year-old male was arrested after a domestic incident which occurred overnight.

Over the space of a week, Kaitangata has gone from being little known outside Otago to an unlikely international media darling.

A Christchurch woman with power of attorney over an intellectually disabled woman has admitted stealing from her to fund her pokies gambling habit.

World media have got the wrong end of the stick - forcing Kaitangata to remind potential new residents they'll have to pay to move south.

A man is in a critical condition after competing in the Mud Sweat and Tears challenge in Canterbury today.

Police are on the hunt for a man who robbed a TAB in Dunedin at gunpoint last night, just two weeks after an armed robbery of a service station on the same street.

Some flights delayed as parts of the country again wake up to a frosty morning, with the lowest temperature dipping to - 6.5C.

Footage of fire fighters battling a car fire overnight in Dunedin has emerged.

When Richard Emerson sold his small Dunedin brewery to national giant Lion four years ago it took him well out of his comfort zone.

New Zealanders will have to wrap up warm again tonight as more icy temperatures are forecast.

Temperatures have reached as low as -7C causing "severe" frosts in parts of Otago, including Cromwell and Dunedin, while parts of Canterbury got down to -4C.

More than 5000 messages have been left with the mayor of Kaitangata from people around the world eager to live in the tiny South Island town.