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.

The West Coast's top cop says telling the public about police responding to crime is the "old school way of thinking".

Heavy rain and gale force winds are expected across New Zealand this week.

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.

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 three-car collision involving a Porsche ended up with one car on the pavement in Westport's main street.

Nearly $60,000 was spent rescuing 38 people stranded after their 4WD vehicles became trapped in snow in Central Otago.

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 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.

Eleven-year-old Elli McLaughlan says smoke alarms save lives after a fire started by an electric blanket on her bed gutted her family's home in Westport yesterday.

NZ lake named among the world's clearest waters by an American travel publication.

North Islanders should rug up and turn their electric blankets on tonight as overnight lows drop by as much as 7C in some areas.

Critics of proposed link between West Coast and Milford Sound say $250 million costing should be more like $2 billion.