An old rugby club building in rural Southland could soon be sold for just $1. But Southland District Council is being secretive about the extra information sought before a decision is made.

A state of emergency has been declared in Selwyn as river levels rise and homes have been evacuated. Mayor Sam Broughton declared the state of emergency at 5.39am following 24 hours of heavy rain in ...

The Canterbury town of Culverden was able to take its turn at hosting an Anzac Day service for the first time in four years on Friday. Amuri residents past and present travelled from far and wide to ...

A decision to restore a 100kph speed limit on State Highway 1, south of Woodend, is being labelled ‘‘disappointing’’ by one Waimakariri councillor.

Duncan Rutherford, a local sheep farmer, owned the Hanmer Lodge Hotel, which he offered to the Government in 1915 as a convalescent home for injured soldiers until the Soldiers’ Block at Queen Mary ...

North Canterbury’s councils say they are keen to see more detail of the Government’s resource management reforms. The Government announced in March it will introduce two new pieces of legislation to ...

Founding members of the Polynesian Panther Party have called on Pacific youth to engage in politics and reclaim their history, after rejecting the 2021 Netflix series "The Panthers" as a ...

ODF is the native file format of LibreOffice, the most widely used and well-known open source office suite, and is supported by a wide range of other applications. Its relevance – twenty years after ...

A Hastings man who has run a makeshift business picking and selling watercress on suburban streets for more than 30 years has ...

Concern is mounting in Tonga over the Sabbath observance laws, which ban many activities on Sundays. Most recently, Police Minister Paula Piukala stopped an air ambulance from coming in, saying there ...

The auditor general has put public agencies on notice to do a better job of ensuring iwi and hapū get what they are legally ...

A representative group for local government is launching a 'how-to' guidebook to help elected members stay safe ahead of this ...