Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says more police are urgently needed to prevent entire towns being lost to criminals. While police numbers in the South...
National Party leader Simon Bridges is calling for an independent inquiry into who leaked details of his expenses to the media before they were...
Elizabeth Baird is nine months clean — after almost a decade battling drug addiction.
A bid by four Cromwell Community Board members to oust chairman Neil Gillespie has been met with confusion by many Cromwell residents.
The Palmerston & Waihemo A&P Association has asked the Waitaki District Council to do a stock take of the district’s flora and fauna. Association...
Police arrested a Tennessee man who allegedly attempted to kill his son with a chainsaw, after he got run over by a lawnmower.
The Otago Daily Times has welcomed two new staff members to its regions team. Ben Waterworth, who is from Australia, has joined the Southland team...
An ongoing investigation suggests some medical students may have cheated in their third-year examinations at the University of Otago. However, the...
Even successful anglers could be taking home fewer trout and salmon from some waterways this fishing season, beginning on October 1. The Otago Fish...
Highlands Motorsport Park owner Tony Quinn says a ruling that means he can only spend 40 days in New Zealand next year will not affect his New...
Under-Fire Fonterra has cut its forecast farm-gate milk price for the 2018-19 season from $7 per kilogram of milk solids to $6.75, in the face of...
TVNZ news presenter and journalist Greg Boyed has died in Europe. The sudden death of the broadcaster – while on a family holiday in Switzerland...
Sidelined National MP Jami-Lee Ross has been identified as the person who leaked Simon Bridges' expenses - but the MP furiously denies the accusation. Nati
A Dunedin property owner disputing his need to pay for a plumber to repair a leaking water toby says a "threatening" letter from the Dunedin City...
Michael Collins was a handy cricketer in his youth — and he played a captain’s knock at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday night. Collins brought up...
The Harliwich Holdings coal mine in Roxburgh has closed indefinitely, but the civil construction arm of the company is still going strong,...
Police are investigating how the fast-spreading cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis got into New Zealand. Inefficient Nait use blamed for M. Bovis...
The Archbishop of Canterbury said that God is "not male nor female," after female bishops demanded the Church stop referring to God as "he."
A Nelson restaurant owner who made the decision to ban kids says the change has "been like heaven".
After the "soul-destroying" theft of 17 trees planted at a beloved North Otago getaway spot, the retired Dunedin couple who had spent years...
