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Nothing will stop Russia from hosting the best World Cup in the tournament's history in 2018, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on a visit to one of the host venues Sochi.

David Leggat rates how the New Zealand players performed going into the World Cup final. 

The Hurricanes machine rolls on.

An American cruise ship passenger was flown from Milford Sound to Dunedin Hospital this morning after falling ill late yesterday.

Police have little hope of finding climber Simon Bell, who was last seen in mid-January, alive.

A $3.25 million science engagement centre is to be created at Otago Museum.

An Invercargill man drowned while collecting shellfish at Ocean Beach in Bluff this afternoon.

One person was taken to Oamaru Hospital with serious injuries last night after a crash on Parsons Rd.

Search and rescue teams are continuing with their search for a young German woman who has gone missing in the Manapouri Hope Arm area.

Police are investigating a suspicious house fire in Tuatapere.

  An area around a central Dunedin building has been cordoned off, following the discovery of what is believed to be a ''corroded and unstable'' World War Two mortar round.

Quick action by two experienced kayakers saved a river surfer from drowning on the Hawea river yesterday afternoon.

Police have confirmed bones found on the shore of Lake Wakatipu on Thursday evening belonged to an animal.

Police are seeking a man who stopped a fire spreading by moving gas bottles following a fire near backpackers' accommodation in Queenstown yesterday.