Police have named the woman found dead in the Timaru River, near Lake Hāwea, on February 5. She was Claire Frances Connell, 36, of Australia.

Photography is a colonial art form, historically feared by Māori people. Reed waka were essential for life in the south, writes Seán Brosnahan. The owners of this house relocated from a city where ...

Dunedin’s Netherworld Dancing Toys became the country’s top band with the release of Painted Years in 1985. In recent months Dunedin’s Neville Peat has received major recognition for half a century of ...

Heart Eyes is a competent convergence of ’90s and 2000s-inspired romantic comedies with the contemporary slasher revival of the past decade. Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt has reportedly arrived in ...

Brassicas put in the garden in late December or during January will need protection from hungry bugs, and it's time to plant ...

Tūhura Otago Museum senior events co-ordinator Jessica Hatfield gives a giant African millipede a kiss as part of Bug Day.

Mercury Energy is warning residential customers are set for a near 10 percent rise in electricity bills this year, blaming it on a host of factors including higher lines charges and energy costs. Data ...

The Ministry of Primary Industries is investigating a complaint about the school lunch programme. The Cook Islands Prime Minister has written to Christopher Luxon after weeks of communication silence ...

The identity of a man accused of sexually abusing four boys at a prestigious Catholic college in Christchurch can now be revealed. Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Foreign Minister Winston Peters must ...

ACT leader David Seymour is the acting Prime Minister this week, with Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters both overseas. Drunken revellers who caused headaches for Twizel residents and businesses on ...