An Auckland man accused of participating in the pack rape of a German tourist has told jurors that it was the woman who ...

Bay of Plenty Regional Council has proposed a 4% general rates increase for the 2026/27 financial year. The council has also ...

A community conservation effort is hoping to fund a new processing facility for wild deer in the deep south. Deer numbers ...

In the deep and dusky south, in what locals say is the last place in New Zealand to see the sunset, the country’s best sausage might just have been crowned. Self-declared as the ‘Sausage Capital of ...

The Government’s Bioeconomy Science Institute will cut 134 jobs less than a year after it was formed. That comes on top of 152 jobs cut when the institute was set up as a merger of AgResearch, Manaaki ...

Police were notified of the crash, involving a bus and a pedestrian, around 10am. Initial indicators are that the pedestrian has moderate injuries. Motorists are advised to avoid the area where ...

Emergency services are at an Ashburton primary school after being told children were feeling unwell, with a “low reading” of a chemical discovered, Fire and Emergency says. Some people from St ...