Southland

The machines may have been vintage but they were in vogue at Edendale at the weekend, as the Crank Up warmed up its engine for another year.

The woman who built and ran luxury accommodation in Fiordland for more than two decades says she is stunned and saddened after fire ripped through the building’s roof.

One of the owners of the five-star Fiordland Lodge hit by a major fire last night says she's relieved everyone got out "safe and well".

Staff and shoppers got a shock yesterday when a car slammed into the front entrance of an Invercargill pharmacy.

Baled hay dots a paddock at Lowther Downs beside State Highway 8 near Lumsden.

When Te’Okota’i Paitai discovered he was the first person of Pasifika descent to become a William Hodges fellow, he took the long overdue mantle to explore ancestral pathways.

It might be too soon to call Gareth Davis a trendsetter but at least one person is following his example.