Giving back to the community and educating more people in basic Te Reo was the goal of the winners of Otago's Young Enterprise Scheme awards this year - and they have won the competition for a brilliant but simple idea.

Southland Hospital’s endoscopy service is to undergo external review, after surgeons wrote to the Southern DHB saying they had lost confidence in the "sub-standard" service.

A commuter train travelling at high speed has ploughed through a crowd of people on the tracks in India, killing dozens of festival-goers who couldn't hear it coming.