last year, the man won the prize for best Pacific song at the Pacific Music Awards.

The man said he had planned to decapitate his victim.

The incident marked the end of nearly a year of offending, the court heard.

There is a southerly flow making its way across the country

The man has elected a trial by jury.

Little Ted's body is in the keeping of Toitu Otago Settler's Museum.

A motorist contacted police after seeing what looked like a gun being waved from a car.

Game abandoned after Tim Wills collapsed to the ground during championship colts match.

Distribution of explicit images of unsuspecting teens by their peers is rampant in Otago.

Dean Anthony Martin, 62, has been caught driving while disqualified 12 times.

The woman had arrived in New Zealand on May 13, 2019, on a three-month visitor visa

The rain is expected to hit the country this weekend.

Six people have been charged in relation to the offending.

Members of the public restrained Stephen Wilkinson as police were called to the scene.

The toxic deposits are deemed to pose a low risk to human health.

Dwayne Keats got a job as a volunteer for the Salvation Army in late 2016.

He took an injured elderly man to the hospital himself, following more than an hour wait.

Vanessa Andrews and Jorge Fuenzalida were stabbed as they tried to stop the attack.

The 49-year-old has had name suppression for almost three and a-half years

Wiremu Namana pleads guilty to grisly killings a month before his trial was due to start.

The historical hoard was found in a cupboard on the second floor of the complex.

Jonathan Usher won half of the six awards on offer at Magicana with his entertaining acts.

Dunedin fugitive paid for a helicopter to fly him out of the bush to hand himself in.

The province's oldest school is about to become the country's newest school.

Maori voices will have a broader influence in shaping the organisation's strategies.

Court asked to rule whether notorious inmate's account can be told.

Medical students in 2019 were found to go on holiday while on overseas placements.

A man drove his car through a Night 'n Day store in Dunedin this morning.

Neighbours say 130-lot project will ruin their country way of living.

Dunedin man who attacked partner in front of children a 'good father'.