Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker has criticised Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for "putting the lives of mothers and babies in rural Southland at risk".
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.
Otago Regional Council's hazards team was heading to the Shotover River last night to check a slip upstream from the Shotover Canyon Swing, which has the potential to be large.
An Otago regional Councillor says giving permission to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to pollute the wider district's waterways is ''not an option''.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is asking for ideas on how visitor numbers and accommodation data can be collected in future.
Queenstown police fear it's just a matter of time before a school pupil is hit by a speeding motorist after a week-long operation focusing on school bus safety.
When a Glenorchy resident was diagnosed with terminal cancer in early 2015, a Queenstown nurse decided to dip into her own pocket to provide some support.
Five hundred automatic rat and stoat traps have been laid around a remote area of Fiordland to help protect 150 South Island robins, or toutouwai, translocated a fortnight ago.
The Glenorchy Community Association and the Automobile Association (AA) are against a proposal to reduce the speed limit on the Queenstown-Glenorchy Rd.
Queenstown Resort College graduands are led by piper Graeme Glass, of Queenstown, down Camp St to the Queens town Memorial Centre for their graduation yesterday afternoon.