The dog handler who pulled Lachie Jones’ body from the water said his dog did not indicate a person had gone over the fence into the ponds where the boy was found.
The death of a Dunedin man may have been prevented if he had been given more information before consenting to the Covid vaccination that later claimed his life.
Government plans to require local councils hold a referendum on whether to have Māori wards breaches the Treaty of Waitangi, a Waitangi Tribunal report has found.
A slow-moving front is set to bring heavy snow to road level for parts of the South and Canterbury this weekend - and motorists are advised to get where they want to sooner rather than later.
Green MP Julie Anne Genter has publicly promised she won't ever again behave in the way she did during a confrontation in Parliament earlier this month.
Kyle James Clarke has been found guilty of reckless driving causing death after he stole a blue Mercedes and sped around Blenheim with the owner in hot pursuit.
A group of South Island strangers who have each been affected by breast cancer are now "thick as thieves" after making friends at a fly-fishing retreat.
A man who orchestrated the importation of $5.5 million worth of methamphetamine into the country did so under the name of well-known Australian rugby figure Quade Cooper.
A man who met a young woman on a dating app while on a working holiday in NZ is to be deported later this year after he finishes a sentence of home detention for rape.