When Tracey and Tony Laker told their son Flynn (18), who has Down’s syndrome, on Thursday night they would be at home on Monday when he came in from school, his eyes filled with tears of happiness.

Time has come to a standstill in Oamaru.

Lucy Matehaere has made getting locked out of Auckland work to her advantage.

A medical business executive will return home to New Zealand from the United States after being announced the new chief executive of Dunedin’s Pacific Edge.

A Dutch-owned Southland flower company has bought a new block of land near Invercargill for $1.6million.

New Zealand’s most southern port is focused on building resources to handle existing and future demand, its annual meeting has heard.

More than 80 of New Zealand’s best youth and masters climbers are competing in Queenstown this weekend.

In a native garden bed next to the upper Botanic Garden car park, there’s a striking group of plants that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dr Seuss book.

It’s worth getting closer than the airport car park.

Sons, and daughters, see and absorb how their father treats their mother and how they talk about women in general, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

A Dutch-owned Southland flower company has bought a new block of land near Invercargill for $1.6million.

Champions of the Southland environment were acknowledged at last night’s 25th Environment Southland Community Awards.

An attack on a lifeguard at Gore’s swimming pool has been described by the local council’s chief executive as the most disturbing episode he had seen in nearly 30 years of service in the local...

When Tracey and Tony Laker told their son Flynn (18), who has Down’s syndrome, on Thursday night they would be at home on Monday when he came in from school, his eyes filled with tears of happiness.

During a week with no shortage of major news, another Government behemoth quietly slipped out of the shipyards and headed out to sea, largely below the radar.

It is with much regret that we announce the death of the Most Reverend Mr Nevill, until recently the Anglican Bishop of Dunedin and for several years the Primate of New Zealand.

If you wrong us shall we not revenge, Shakespeare asked in The Merchant Of Venice.