A growing sense the Dunedin City Council should refocus, listen to city retailers and avoid wasteful spending has fuelled the emergence of a ratepayers’ association.
Despite being more than four decades older than his tertiary student challengers, Dunedin’s Campus Cop has once again beaten the competition at an annual test of stamina.
Dunedin man Joshua Perry has welcomed a Government move to allow people affected by life-shortening congenital conditions to gain earlier access to their KiwiSaver funds.
A Black Power gang member who raised a .22 gun to Mongrel Mob members at the Glengarry Tavern last month yesterday has admitted his part in the confrontation.
Commercial accommodation providers are calling on the Waitaki District Council to take decisive and bold action on Airbnbs before there are no commercial operators left in Oamaru.
An evening shopping trip has ground life to a halt for more than 1200 shoppers, yet the ever-widening net of contact categories in Auckland's Covid-19 response is stirring up confusion.
People with down syndrome, cerebral palsy, Huntington's disease and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder will now have early access to money they have in KiwiSaver.
More details have emerged about the death of a Christchurch toddler in a washing machine last week - but her name and other details have been suppressed.
Regional economic activity is continuing to improve but the blow to different areas from Covid-19 — including Otago — is becoming starker, the latest Infometrics quarterly economic monitor shows.
Kiwibank plans to close seven branches over the next year in a response to more customers moving online to do their banking, including one in Balclutha.
One of Queenstown’s longest-running independent restaurants will close its doors for good tomorrow night, amid predictions of a "bloody long autumn" for the resort town.
We are in the middle of a purple patch as far as fishing is concerned and cicadas are dropping on the tussock lakes, willow grub are falling on lowland streams and trout are taking advantage of...
A Black Power gang member who raised a .22 gun to Mongrel Mob members at the Glengarry Tavern last month yesterday has admitted his part in the confrontation.
Discredited former Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker accrued a $10,000 expense bill in his final months in the job, according to just-released records.
Rock great Bruce Springsteen has been fined $US500 for consuming alcohol at a New Jersey beach, but had drunken driving and reckless driving charges dropped.
The World Health Organization's global vaccine-sharing scheme Covax has delivered its first Covid-19 shots as the race to inoculate the world's poorest people and tame the pandemic accelerates.
Police are seeking to determine what caused Tiger Woods to swerve off a California road in his SUV, hit a tree and roll down a hillside in an accident that left the golf great seriously injured.
What are the key markers of contemporary religious faith and practice in New Zealand? Unlike Germany, there is no state support for the churches here. Unlike the US, piety is not worn on one’s...
There is no beating about the bush in the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s follow-up report on the impact of tourism on the environment.