Making teachers' lives easier is the mantra for Invercargill company.

A weekend for BBQing is on the cards as a large and strong anticyclone in the Tasman Sea pushes over the country.

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

A panel of experts has recommended retaining neurosurgery services at both Dunedin and Christchurch hospitals - a verdict met by cheering crowds.

The New Zealand national team threw down the gauntlet early on the opening day of the cycling Tour of Southland.

An Invercargill teenager, who set three men alight after he threw petrol on a fire, was given a warning under the three strikes law today.