The atmosphere at Cromwell’s Anderson Park Rose Garden was joyful as visitors relished the sights and sounds at this year’s Light Up Winter event held on Saturday.

The "escalating chaos on stage and backstage" of the Oamaru Repertory Society’s show Noises Off will be captured perfectly by a revolving set built by the show’s director Andrew Killick.

A generous private donation of thousands of colourful Japanese kimonos sent Christchurch City Mission op-shoppers into a buying frenzy.

New Zealand and Australia need to give much greater attention to the combined impact they could have on the world stage, an international relations specialist says.

Dunedin golf prodigy Joanna Ke has blitzed the field to claim one of junior golf's top titles.

Sir Ian Taylor says he has only been able to join the likes of Walt Disney in receiving a global innovation award because he set up his company in Dunedin.

Dunedin nurses have been reduced to tears by the stress of working long shifts to cover staff shortages.