The balloon is operating as expected and being monitored from Nasa's base in Texas.

WATCH: A stadium-sized balloon launch has gone ahead in Wanaka.

NASA has again postponed the Wanaka launch of a huge balloon planned to study "near space"

Higher wind speeds have forced the postponement of NASA's super-pressure balloon.

Police have confiscated drugs and arrested three people after raids in Wanaka.

The bag fell off the back of a van as it drove along Crown Range Rd yesterday.

On May 9, 2014, Kahu Vincent was continuously beaten and had his head stomped.

Govino New Zealand director Prue Kane talks about taking on an established drinkware business and the greatest lessons she's learnt.

The driver, captured in footage shot on the Crown Range, ignored repeated efforts to make him pull over.

Spending 48 hours in a scenic town with a head cold isn't so bad, Susan Strongman reports.

Celebrities Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling are ready to "snuggle some sheep" during their stay in New Zealand. Witherspoon, who

NASA is heading back to Wanaka to launch its super balloons which orbit the globe performing scientific monitoring.

NASA has confirmed it will return to Wanaka to launch it's super-pressure balloon which will see the 18.8 million cubic foot balloon

A 98-year-old cruise boat and her Whangarei boat shed are up for sale, an offer its owners say is "as rare as hen's teeth".

COMMENT: Peter Thiel makes for good copy, but the nub of the issue over his freshly revealed citizenship is straightforward: How'd he get it?

There's no slumming it in the McCaw household, as the newlyweds continue to celebrate married life in beautiful Central Otago locations.

Tourism continues to boom in New Zealand with spending by domestic and international visitors approaching $26b for the past year.

There's a strange side to one of the country's wealthiest citizens.

What kind of gift to give New Zealand's golden couple could be tricky.

Wild weather threatens to dampen the wedding of the year in Wanaka, with gusty winds and rain forecast.

It seems someone important is getting married at the Olive Grove venue in Wanaka this weekend.

Another twist in the marriage saga of the country's most famous glamour couple as the pair fly out of Queenstown.

McCaw has been spotted out and about in Wanaka this afternoon - without a wedding band.

Speculation was rife last night that Richie McCaw and Gemma Flynn married at a private ceremony in Wanaka.

Police are "generally pleased" with behaviour at New Year's Eve celebrations across the country and say there were no significant issues or incidents reported.

Party-goers who attended an unauthorised event on Lake Wanaka's Ruby Island claim safety was paramount.

Any of the drunken teens who partied on a Wanaka island yesterday could have drowned, say despairing authorities.

The death of a young Czech man who fell several hundred metres on Mt Aspiring is "tragic", the Mountain Safety Council says.

A man has died after falling several hundred metres on to the Therma Glacier at Mt Aspiring.

Queenstown and Wanaka are expected to be the hottest.