John Lewis

A rare, sudden stratospheric warming of the polar air above Antarctica is allowing icy air masses near the south pole to escape into the southern hemisphere’s mid-latitudes, and it may be heading our way.

Otago and Auckland Universities have told the govt they can train up to 300 additional doctors annually, without the need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a third medical school in Waikato.

The Universities of Otago and Auckland are teaming up, and have told the government they can train up to 300 additional doctors annually, without the need for a third medical school at Waikato.

A former Christchurch Wendy's worker who has taken over a Dunedin dairy says she will continue to make the biggest ice creams in the city.

A 27-year-old man out on bail is back in the Dunedin District Court after allegedly assaulting a security guard in a central city mall.

Several stretches of South Island highways are closing overnight owing to ongoing wild weather.