Early indications suggest a vehicle crossing the centreline in Tīrau resulted in a fatal crash that killed one and put 14 others in hospital, police say.
It has taken 16 years for the man who lured Christchurch woman Kerry Downey into his home under the guise of adopting an unwanted cat to finally reveal why he murdered her.
Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs will remain in jail ahead of his mid-2025 trial on sex-trafficking charges after a judge denied his bid to be released on $84m bail from a US prison.
A jury has found an Australian police officer, who unlawfully killed an aged-care resident with dementia by shooting her with a Taser, guilty of manslaughter.
"Blatant revenue gathering." That’s what a Lincoln man thinks about the Selwyn District Council ticketing his car for facing the wrong way while parked across the road from his home.
A petition has been launched to fight Pharmac’s decision to swap hormone replacement therapy providers and to stop funding a brand many women find more effective.
A person died in the cardiac unit while Dunedin Hospital staff were waiting for life-saving equipment to be repaired, the Otago Daily Times has learned.
After several weeks of temperatures in the high teens, Dunedin residents are in for a shock - the city’s temperatures are expected to reach 28°C today.