A person is in a serious condition after an incident involving an animal near Brighton this morning. A Hato Hone St John spokesman said they responded to reports of an ‘‘animal incident’’ on Taieri ...

A flight from Auckland to Queenstown had to turn back after it was hit by lightning shortly after take-off tonight. In a post to social media, Southland MP Joseph Mooney, who was on the flight, said ...

Widespread internet outages are being felt around the North Island, which telcos are blaming on a Chorus fault. "We can confirm that there is a Chorus fault impacting broadband services across all ...

Looking through over Blueskin Bay towards Waitati. - Joanna Salmond-Chang ...

Warbird aircraft engineers are now eligible to apply along with Warbird pilots to the Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust scholarship programme, the trust has announced. Warbirds Over Wanaka general ...

A South Dunedin man missing since yesterday afternoon has been found. Police issued an alert after Stephen was last seen about 4pm yesterday. "Police and his loved ones have concerns for his welfare," ...

A man has died after being injured at a property in Allandale, near Governors Bay, in Canterbury. A police spokesperson said ...

"They wasted several months doing that and now they’re coming back to the new one, and only probably because 35,000 people walked up the main street of Dunedin [protesting the moves]." Dr Gardner said ...

Firefighters have put out a blaze at a commercial business in Southland. A Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz) spokesman said one crew from the Invercargill station and one from Kingswell were initially ...

The Education Ministry has started an external investigation into leaks - and asked RNZ to help. Kiwis living on the Gold ...

Portuguese and German police have launched joint searches for new evidence related to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.