One person was taken to hospital with moderate injuries after a piece of heavy machinery slid into a hole near Invercargill. A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said they were called to the ...

MetService wanted to issue a severe weather warning the day before a devastating cyclone made landfall in 2023, but faced opposition from ...

The Minister for Mental Health has been briefed on the death of a baby found in a wheelie bin in Auckland. A severed ...

Funeral debt is an unwelcome, extra burden at a time of grief for a significant number of people. I have always wanted to visit Hallstatt, a prehistoric site that his given its name to the early Iron ...

NZers who moved overseas without paying their student loans are living with skyrocketing debt because of compounding ...

Kanye West has had his Australian visa cancelled after he released “Heil Hitler”, a song promoting Nazism, the country’s home ...

A motorist travelling from Queenstown to Dunedin said it was "just chaos" on the road moments before a head-on crash between a car and a truck ended in a fatality. A tiny native fish with a big ...

A severed fibreoptic cable is behind a mobile phone and internet outage across large parts of Golden Bay, in Tasman. Police ...

Police are appealing for information relating to a three-month-old Hutt Valley baby who suffered multiple fractures to her ...

A prominent New Zealander has been granted continued suppression orders prohibiting media from publishing his name and the charges he faces. The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of ...

Researchers are warning about the spread of a venomous spider with a "potentially sinister bite" which has officially ...

It’s quarterfinal time this weekend on ODT Rugby Chat and we talk to two of the contenders in Dunedin and Southern. Otago Paralympian Adam Hall has been selected for his sixth Paralympic Winter Games ...