A "distracted" midwife who was "rushing" to complete administrative tasks after a birth left the room for 25 minutes - only to come back and ...

An Otago woman who died in a crash near Waitahuna has been remembered as a "much loved wife and beloved daughter". Erin van de Water died in a ...

Dunedin student Renata Herrera Rojas is determined to get young people feeding their brain properly - without busting the budget.

Today's letters to the editor from readers cover topics including holding on to medical graduates, water quality, stadium's sound and trees in ...

Four new retailers, including three major chains, are part of a promising future for Dunedin’s main street, a property investor says. Data ...

Environment Southland has agreed to sell a large block of land for just $1 after purchasing it six years ago for $650,000. The land known as the ...

Police have found a bicycle belonging to missing West Coast beekeeper Roy Arbon. Arbon, 75, has been missing since he set out on a walk up Mt ...

Several people have reportedly been killed after a gunman opened fire inside a midtown Manhattan skyscraper in New York.

Two people have been injured after a truck crash on State Highway 1 in Canterbury. Emergency services were called to the single-vehicle crash ...

A document, quietly uploaded online, shows ministers agreed to lift the maximum annual fee for chairs of governance boards from $90,000 to about ...

Dunedin researchers are heading up an international study to identify abnormal DNA markers in order to detect a deadly cancer before it is too ...