Nurses on three wards at Christchurch Hospital will walk off the job for two hours from 2pm on Friday to protest chronic staffing shortages.

An Amberley-based brewing company has brought home a coveted International Lager trophy from the recent NZ Beer Awards in Christchurch.

The NZ eye surgeon found not guilty of killing his wife after a lengthy murder trial last year may give evidence at her coronial inquest next year.

The three councils left in the Southern Water Done Well scheme have each voted to move ahead with the venture. The Central Otago District ...

A man has admitted killing a teacher whose body was found inside a wheelie bin in Melbourne last year.  Stephen Fleming formally entered a ...

Argentina have gone from whipping boys to a team that, while perhaps not feared yet, has gained huge respect - and on their day are a match ...

A Dunedin man has been jailed after urinating in a supermarket where he was shoplifting. Thomas Aleni, 25, appeared in the Dunedin District ...

A holster worn on the hip which sterilises needles each time a farmer vaccinates cattle is the idea of a University of Canterbury student ...

An Israeli minister has hit back at New Zealand PM's comments that Benjamin Netanyahu has "lost the plot," accusing him of being unable ...

A Dunedin woman who came to grief on black ice was trying to overtake a grit truck, police say. The 51-year-old was travelling behind a ...

Dame Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson have refused to appear, leading the Royal Commission to cancel a public hearing.