The government is putting the brakes on "pricey, pointless" council planning work ahead of its major shake-up of resource management laws. Speaking in Christchurch today, RMA Reform Minister Chris ...

Canterbury councils want to know who pays for preparing for climate change as major storms and flooding threaten local communities.

A teenager’s poignant reflection on the Christchurch terror attacks has earned her a spot at a national final for a speechmaking competition.

A secondary school principal says about half a dozen students were on the Lower Hutt platform at the time of the incident.

Another well-known Kiwi rock band has been added to the Go Live Festival line-up in Christchurch. Tadpole was a mainstay of the early 2000s New Zealand music scene, with their triple-platinum debut ...

Little spotted kiwi have been rediscovered in the wild on the West Coast for the first time in 50 years, delighting conservationists, who say ...

A notorious Australian backpacker murderer has died without revealing where he put the remains of the man he killed in the outback. Bradley ...

Selwyn is considering a policy of “replacing one tree with at least two” after Rolleston was shown to have one of the lowest numbers for a town ...

Dozens of people are signing up to a job site for older workers every day, as more and more of them are noticeably struggling to find work.

An Auckland woman who has moved to South Island is making it her mission to tell people how lucky they are to live here. After living in the ...

A legally blind pensioner has avoided any punishment for attacking his rowdy neighbour with a crowbar. Pottki Tangimetua, 66, was granted ...

It's been a tumultuous three years at the Gore District Council with a heated election in 2022 ending in a close call and NZ's youngest ever ...