Tekapo

New Zealand is on track to create one of the world's first world heritage starlight reserves above the Mackenzie Basin, but still faces "a long road" before having it approved by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).

A teenage soldier said curiosity drove him to try to stab his sleeping roommate to death in their bunkroom at the Tekapo Military Camp.

One of the three men who died on a fishing trip on Lake Tekapo last month was probably run over by the boat after it hit a submerged object, a coroner has ruled.