Tender documents for the Dunedin Courthouse restoration will soon be issued to a shortlist of contractors.
Rank outsiders Iceland fought back to salvage a memorable 1-1 draw with Portugal as they made their major tournament debut at Euro 2016.
Drift trike thieves with a hankering for a late-night liquid breakfast entered three Abbotsford addresses last week.
Three men with weapons including a sword and a firearm robbed a Dunedin service station in the early hours of this morning.
A person is trapped in an overturned car after a crash in the Bay of Plenty.
Six people were treated for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Christchurch overnight.
A 10-year-old girl is in a serious condition after being hit by a car in Napier.
Eleven people had died by last night over a harrowing Queen's Birthday weekend - its worst road toll in 27 years.
A section of Old Dunstan Road will be closed to through traffic from tonight.
The Dunedin City Council is asking those with ideas for the use of the former Tomahawk School site to come forward.
Emergency services attended a crash on East Taieri Rd, near Allanton, this afternoon.
Firefighters in Dunedin tackled a fire this morning which threatened to spread to nearby units.
A man was admitted to Dunedin Hospital following a stabbing in central Dunedin early this morning.
Police are treating a fire that extensively damaged a unit in the Dunedin yesterday as suspicious.
Police have seized a house in Milton they described as a 'drug-dealing den' and two people face drug charges following operations yesterday and today.
Blood has been found in a number of rooms that were broken into at a Queenstown tertiary education centre last night.
The England pace attack ripped out Sri Lanka for 91 after Jonny Bairstow made an excellent century to put the hosts in complete control of the first test on the second day in Leeds.
For the Crusaders, the perfect antidote to their defeat to the Highlanders last week was a game against an Australian or South African side, and they drank deep from the medicine bottle against the Waratahs in Christchurch tonight.
A person with serious injuries has been cut out of a vehicle after a two-vehicle crash on the Hibiscus Coast.
Heavy rain has caused surface flooding on State Highway 6 between Haast and Makarora (Haast Pass), and motorists are urged to take extra care.