More than 40 South Invercargill properties have been without power for almost 24 hours.

Clutha District Council has signed off the first of its own turn-key house-and-land build packages in Kaitangata, after the project was announced to international fanfare two years ago.

A man who assaulted a visitor to Queenstown after a conversation about goat pies was ordered to pay the victim $250 by Judge Mark Callaghan in the Queenstown District Court.

New Zealand passengers are stranded in Honolulu after an Air New Zealand flight was instructed to return to Auckland Airport.

Under-fire Fletcher Building's full-year report, due out tomorrow, will be dominated by its $660million provision for construction losses this year, but analysts will be straining for positive...

Failing a catastrophe today or tomorrow, the United States Standard & Poor's 500 should reach the longest bull market in the post-war period.

The first milk has been delivered to Mataura Valley Milk's $240million nutrition plant at McNab, near Gore.

A digger and $5000 worth of goods and tools were stolen in two separate burglaries at Queenstown construction sites at the weekend.

Queenstown Primary School pupils (from left) Savin Skala (8), Liam Clarke (9), and Kieran Squire (10), in the kitchen of the school's pop-up restaurant, The Playhouse, on Friday.

Single use is finally on the way out. From here on we’re picking up reusable bags and going steady, writes Gina Dempster.

A stockman on the run from family troubles in Taranaki was one of the Otago battalion's unlikely heroes, writes Sean Brosnahan.  

There's a balance somewhere between having things in our home and being swamped by what we have, writes life coach Jan Aitken.

Highlanders coach Aaron Mauger says the side will have to nail its first-choice pivot before next season even kicks off.

The player drain is continuing unabated as the pull overseas and the need to rest up hits sides in the Mitre 10 Cup hard.

Liam Coltman last played for Otago nearly two years ago, and continues not to wear the blue and gold.

A cute little story of a friendship between a sheep and a pig has warmed thousands of hearts on social media.

The first milk has been delivered to Mataura Valley Milk's $240million nutrition plant at McNab, near Gore.

Dunedin-based agribusiness consulting company AbacusBio is rebuilding the selection indexes for the American Angus Association, the world’s largest beef cattle society.

More than 40 South Invercargill properties have been without power for almost 24 hours.

When  portrait paintings collide with digital technology, the result is emotive, engaging and ``a little bit freaky''.

Detectives in New South Wales are working to catch the people who left a young father on the side of a road with fatal burns.