Tess Brunton

Business is booming for the New Zealand tourism industry, with the number of international visitors climbing by more than 40 percent in the past decade.

An Upper Clutha community is in mourning as the search continues for missing helicopter pilot Matthew Wallis at Lake Wanaka.

A smart room created for the Blind Foundation has been called "game-changing" by its Dunedin clients.

Critically acclaimed hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar will kick off the New Zealand leg of his The Damn Tour in Dunedin tonight.

An Otago census field officer has come forward with a scathing description of its delivery operations.

Plans to build a multi-million dollar accommodation complex in Fiordland National Park have got locals and environmentalists on edge.

Some Queenstown businesses fear a new bed tax could ruin their livelihoods.

Waitaki District residents are no closer to discovering the source of an E coli spike that contaminated their groundwater.

Land Search and Rescue is experiencing a rise in call-outs as people get into trouble while searching for Instagram hot spots.

An investigation into allegations a Dunedin football coach made a child rub his nose in dirt and gloated about it has finished.

The Dunedin City Council could divert wastewater away from a low-lying suburb into a nearby stream in a bid to prevent flooding.

Lower Waitaki Plains residents could wait more than a month before any action is taken to remedy their contaminated water.

The lower South Island's only residential village for vulnerable children closes its doors to children and their families for the last time today after first opening in 1941.

The sighting of a wallaby in Dunedin is extremely concerning, the Otago Regional Council says.

Some people with disabilities and their families are still suffering after cuts to support services which were only supposed to have a minor impact.

With the final test match between the All Blacks and Les Bleus only a day away, French rugby supporters have started trickling into Dunedin.

The teenager who booked an Airbnb property for an alcohol-fueled party in Dunedin has been kicked off the site.

A new fly species has been discovered among the mudflats around Aramoana in the lower South Island.

Dunedin Hospital's new gastroenterology department is expected to help a region with one of the highest bowel cancer mortality rates in New Zealand.