Anne Gibson takes in the luxurious accommodation and dramatic surroundings at a Palliser Bay lodge that's hosted royalty.

The astonishingly wild setting of this Palliser Bay lodge belies the extreme luxury of its accommodation spaces.

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Hollywood film tycoon James Cameron has made two further Wairarapa farm purchases but how much he paid has been kept secret.

Severe rain and wind warnings and a drop in temperatures have been issued for parts of the South Island and lower North Island this weekend.

Paul Rush visits a site where Maori legend and ancient architecture collide to remind us of our shared heritage.

"Horrendous" is how a judge has described Jim Wilson's 21 years of sexual offending against a female victim, starting when she was four years old.

Five people were injured in a two-car crash in Wairarapa this morning.

It's "one day at a time" for toddler Caleb Skinner as doctors slowly bring him out of an induced coma, after he was allegedly seriously injured by a friend of his mother on Monday.

A large fire has broken out at the Masterton Medical Centre this evening.

A Wairarapa pub which tried to claim its courtesy van driver was a lonely volunteer looking for company has been ordered to pay the pensioner for his work.

An Owaka man was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital after a quad bike rolled in the Catlins yesterday.

A "severe'' 6.2 quake that hit the lower North Island today has toppled walls and chimneys and sent rockfalls across roads, with a building in Masterton red-stickered due to damage.

Grieving family members have identified the body pulled from a Wairarapa river as that of a missing 19-year-old swimmer.

Tegan Gadsby, 7, was gutted to find her early Christmas present from her nana destroyed.