Opoho School pupils were among many across Dunedin to ring a bell at 1pm yesterday to mark the start of the Toroa royal albatross breeding season at Taiaroa Head.
A South Island gymnastics coach once described by a young girl he abused as a "grandfather figure" is attempting to have his 15-year prison sentence reduced.
The blaze on Christchurch's Port Hills in February started on private property but investigators have not determined how it started, a new report shows.
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says there's no bad blood with the National Party as he leaves the force early to head up the new Social Investment Agency.