Tracey Roxburgh

A drink driver who abandoned his seriously injured girlfriend in a crashed car, only for her to be found six hours later, says he woke up later that morning wondering what happened to her.

Over three months, in three separate incidents, a Fernhill man abused bar staff, offended bottle store workers, and drove over one of NZ's most high-risk roads while almost five times the legal alcohol limit.

A Frankton builder was so incensed at a tourist who stopped their car in the middle of the Glenorchy-Queenstown Rd for a photo he grabbed their keys and threw them into dense bush.

Dominion Constructors and a former employee are seeking to have charges against them dismissed. They are accused of carrying out building work without consent.

Anxious mothers are worried about where they will end up giving birth says Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker after a baby was born in the car park of the Lumsden maternal and child hub today.

Brendan Lindsay drove from Christchurch to Queenstown on Tuesday night, just to ensure he claimed a "First on the Chair" T-shirt from Coronet Peak the next morning.