The Frasers Open Pit at OceanaGold’s Macraes Operation has reached the end of its mining life after nearly three decades of continuous operation.

It could be third time lucky for the man behind a proposed Alexandra subdivision.

Two Maheno brothers who died in World War 1 have been honoured with an oak tree-planting ceremony in Kakanui Valley Rd.

Search crews are resuming the search for a man believed to be missing in the sea in Northland.

One person has died following a hit-and-run in West Auckland's Henderson overnight.

The Silver Ferns have opened up the three-test series against England with a 61-58 win in London.

ASB has allocated $1 billion to a land optimisation programme which is projected to add up to $4.5b to GDP over the next five years.

Howling gales and snowstorms, it must be spring time in the South.

Smart phones showing photographic memories of adverse weather events on farm during past springs was a driver for Strath Taieri sheep and beef farmer Will Gibson to put his rams out later.

Southland beef farmer Dougal Stringer wears a hat promoting the family stud declaring "it’s cool to be a farmer".

While driving my children to school one morning a year ago, I shared something I’d been carrying quietly for a while, that I wanted to receive my moko kauae.

One item of a proposed new curriculum for schools attracted my attention.

I’ve been spending a lot of evenings lately at my new observatory near Middlemarch.

Communities in two Australian states remain under threat from wild weather packing hailstones, heavy rain and destructive winds.