Bringing the Otepoti Dance Festival to the Octagon in Dunedin at the weekend are Black and White Dance Studio dancers (from left) Angelina Cockerill, Caroline Decourt and Charlotte Cooper.
A Dunedin surgeon is calling for New Zealand hospitals to incorporate high-intensity interval training (HIIT) into the daily routines of patients, where possible, before they have major surgery.
A southern trucking company says it is exciting watching New Zealand’s first hydrogen refuelling stations opening — even if they are in the North Island.
People who lived in the 19th century where Dunedin’s new hospital is being built were often relatively young and in search of a new start, an archaeologist believes.
South Island National Chrysanthemum show secretary Kit Jack and husband Walter Jack admire the top prize bloom, "Peggy Anne", grown by Tom Dahlenburg, of Otautau, in Dunedin yesterday.
Respect for elders and the New Zealand ethos of giving people a fair go could be persuasive arguments that convince Parliament to scrap a law that denied citizenship to a group of Samoan people, a Green MP says.
A powerful synthetic cannabinoid that can lead to overdoses, even at low concentrations, and has been linked to serious harm - including deaths - in NZ, has been detected in a yellow powder presumed to be DMT.
Thousands have gathered on Rio de Janeiro's famous Copacabana beach ahead of a free open-air concert by Madonna, expected to attract 1.5 million people.
An 85-year-old woman has won a court battle that proves her lifelong suspicions that she was the illegitimate daughter of a man her housekeeper mother once worked for.
If the latest mutation of bird flu currently infecting cows in the United States figures out human-to-human transmission, the timing could not be worse, a prominent Kiwi flu researcher says.
Mexican authorities have confirmed the two Australians and one American who went missing in northern Mexico last week are dead after their bodies were identified by parents.
New Zealand Food Safety is monitoring overseas recalls of Indian packaged spice products manufactured by MDH and Everest due to concerns over a cancer-causing pesticide.
King Charles and other senior British royals are to relinquish patronages of almost 200 charities and organisations after a review of their association with more than 1000 groups.