Oamaru Spartans, a rising tug-of-war team from Oamaru, made an impressive mark at a recent competition in Dunedin, finishing as runners-up in an event organised by Goliath Dunedin on February 23.

A community is shocked after a shooting at a Whangārei waterfront park that has left one woman dead and another person critically injured.

Police swooped on a Dunedin workplace to arrest a man over the assault of an on-duty firefighter during a crash that closed both lanes of a road in Caversham.

Despite hopping on a train for five and a-half hours of uninterrupted knitting, actually getting it done will be "quite a challenge", Jan Aitken says.

A captive kākā at the centre of a battle between the Department of Conservation (Doc) and the bird’s longtime carers will stay in Dunedin, it has been confirmed.

Getting down with the dogs proved lucky for one North Taieri woman when she spotted a five-leaf clover.