Serious concerns about biodiversity, ecology and heritage were at the centre of a bruising hearing for Santana Minerals.

A pair from Tarras charged with allegedly operating in the illegal trade of pounamu appeared in the Greymouth District Court yesterday.

Anxiety about water quality in the Manuherikia River brought an impassioned presentation to the Central Otago District Council meeting yesterday.

Suzie Bates was back at school yesterday, this time without the textbooks.

King’s High School captain Zane Rakete-Gray tries to escape the clutches of diving Waitaki Boys’ High School fullback Cash Paterson during the First XV interschool at King’s yesterday. King’s won...

A baby blue Bedford truck will be a vehicle to tell a biodiversity story about a dairy farm in South Otago.

Beef production is an integral part of a dairy farm business in Southland, its owners say.

Bobby calves present both a challenge and an opportunity, a southern animal scientist says.

For the Spring Festival, hundreds of millions head home to welcome the lunar new year in Shenzhen, China. Oscar Francis paid a visit as it welcomed the Year of the Horse.

My youngest son puts a fairly low key pressure on me about getting my moko kauae.

The United Arab Emirates said it was quitting OPEC, dealing a blow to the oil producers' group as an unprecedented energy crisis caused by the Iran war exposes discord among Gulf nations.