When Max spotted rabbits while out for a walk in a Christchurch park last week, he did what dogs do - he chased them.

The coalition has shaved off an average $5.3 billion govt spending for each of the next four years in the 2025 Budget.

Work has started on 57 new car parks where the Rangiora police station once stood. The Waimakariri District Council expects work to be completed by mid-July. Mayor Dan Gordon says he knows a lot of ...

Queenstown's Hine Taylor has been living couch-to-couch for more than five months while she sits tight on a lengthy social housing waiting list.

"It feels like a kid robbing his mum to pay for his mates" says library assistant Alex Cass, as she prepares for the government to reveal Budget 2025. “Delete all of your conversations and stop ...

An enraged Dunedin man threatened to rob and kill a bank call centre worker and ‘‘smash’’ their workplace up, police said. Mary Williams investigates the polluted Kaikorai Stream's journey past two ...

Japanese farm minister Taku Eto has resigned after remarks he made about rice triggered a firestorm of criticism from voters and lawmakers. Gisborne police are searching for a man who fled from rural ...

Residents and officials have voiced their frustration with the "untenable" financial pressures expected to arise from the government’s Local Water Done Well programme at a meeting in Balclutha.

A man who lost $2000 when he got one number wrong in a bank transfer has been told to drop his complaint.

The University of Otago still has to find an extra $23.5 million in savings and its situation could be made worse if the government does not come to the party on Budget day.

New Zealand Oil and Gas - which holds substantial oil and gas exploration permits offshore from Oamaru and Dunedin - is under a $30.5m takeover offer by its 70% shareholder.

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