A regional landfill operator has been given the cold shoulder by the DCC and was not approached for information while ratepayers could be stung with a $92.4m "gamble" instead, its manager says.

Andrea Vance writes a newspaper column. It is critical of the pay equity reforms which I have fast-tracked through parliament to bring about lasting, meaningful change.

A young Mexican social media influencer, known for her videos about beauty and makeup, was brazenly shot to death during a ...

A man spotted speeding at over 100kmh on George St had a stolen vehicle being stripped for parts in his garage, police say. A Dunedin man with a "horrible" history of violence has been sentenced to ...

A southern emergency call handler has had an emotional meeting with the mum whose baby she helped deliver during a 111 call ...

Three patients have been transported to hospital in serious condition after a person was trapped in head-on crash in Dunedin ...

White Ferns and Otago cricket great Suzie Bates has signed with Durham Cricket for the One Day Cup and Vitality Blast. Otago trio Eden Carson, Jacob Duffy and Chris Gaffaney were among the winners at ...

A resource consent application has been lodged for a Woolworths supermarket in Queenstown’s Ladies Mile. The backer of a proposed $200 million Queenstown film studio earmarked for fast-track approval ...

New Zealand has the highest suicide rate for children, a survey of wealthy countries shows. Fire crews south of Ashburton have been battling a large rural fire burning through around 14,000 hay bales ...

The arrest of a person arriving at the border last month over unpaid student loan debt is an example of Inland Revenue ...

The person at the centre of a new measles alert in Auckland is a crew member on a Fullers360 ferry, the company has confirmed. One person is dead and three have been injured after an ATV (all-terrain ...

Prime minister Christopher Luxon has accused critics of the government's pay equity shake-up of "scaremongering" and ...