If you hear loud sirens down your street next week, that is the Dunedin emergency services call asking you to bring your extra cans to your gate for collection.
A young Christchurch man in the throes of dying from a drug overdose thrashed about in distress while the person who gave him the drug filmed his demise and sent it to friends.
Tributes are pouring in for country music icon Reg McTaggart, who died at his Arrowtown home last month, after having lived in the Wakatipu for roughly 50 years.
Jeremiah Hall was halfway through designing a symbol of St Clair’s identity which will fly high above the Dunedin suburb when he nearly flagged the idea.
Wānaka residents fighting plans for a McDonald’s need to realise the resort is "not the little mountain town" it once was, a developer involved in the project says.
Hospitals, religious institutions and other organisations throughout the country have received another barrage of "unsettling" and "concerning emails".
A young Christchurch man in the throes of dying from a drug overdose thrashed about in distress while the person who gave him the drug filmed his demise and sent it to friends.
Controversial calls from ref Wayne Barnes which saw two All Black Rugby World Cup campaigns end in tears have elicited plenty of foul-mouthed reactions from Kiwi rugby fans.
Bangladesh set New Zealand a daunting target of 332 on a turning track and then reduced them to 113 for seven to close in on victory on day four of the opening test in Sylhet.
The money withdrawn early from KiwiSaver funds due to financial hardship has doubled compared with a year ago, with significantly more people taking money out before retirement.
Elon Musk is keen to achieve what no business leader's done before, from mass-producing electric cars to developing reusable space rockets. Now he's blazing another trail most CEOs have avoided: the profane insult.
Tributes are pouring in for country music icon Reg McTaggart, who died at his Arrowtown home last month, after having lived in the Wakatipu for roughly 50 years.
Nearly 40 South Devon cattle enthusiasts from around the world are in New Zealand for a conference and national tour, which included a stop on the Taieri last week.
The Bluff Oyster Festival has received a massive boost with consent granted to knock over a dangerous building which had caused the canning of this year’s event.
Evacuations were under way in the Philippines after a quake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck the southern region of Mindanao, triggering tsunami warnings in the country and in Japan.
Major flood warnings are in place for several river systems in Victoria's southeast as the state braces for more rain, along with parts of New South Wales and Queensland.
Parliament is not actually back at work yet, but its constituent parties have now at last worked out where their MPs will be sitting and what jobs they will be doing.
Another year, another massive climate change conference under way which reflects much goodwill to do something about the problem but struggles every time to achieve it.
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including a compromise for the Taieri Gorge, double standards for cats and dogs, and inexperienced negotiations.