Crews are responding to a "hopper fire" at a Southland commercial property, fire officials say. Santa got a last-minute ...

Fire and Emergency NZ is warning holidaymakers to have a plan and be prepared for the possibility of a wildfire this summer. Buildings on the old polytech site in Ashburton have been marked for ...

In a six-part series Mike Houlahan looks back at how the Otago Daily Times covered burning issues of yesteryear. We begin by considering the moral panic which ensued in some quarters when the ...

Dangerous fire conditions are sweeping across several states as Australia's southeast endures a Boxing Day scorcher. Fire and Emergency NZ is warning holidaymakers to have a plan and be prepared for ...

A Dunedin man is spending Christmas Day cooped up inside a motel, as the date to move back into his flood-damaged house keeps ...

A family-owned restaurant in the Far North is making sure people who could have gone hungry today will instead go home full ...

Dunedin's Town Hall was packed to the rafters with merry-makers from all over the city for a special Christmas meal today. A ...

A child has died after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Masterton this afternoon. A family-owned restaurant in the ...

Knives, tasers, screwdrivers, knitting needles, knuckledusters, fireworks and even an axe were among the banned items people have tried to take into courts across NZ recently. Police and DOC are ...

La Prele is an archaeological site in Wyoming where mammoths were hunted 13,000 years ago. Our people are the wayfarers of the ocean, we live by the lore of the sea, we are fed by it and fear it. Gary ...

Victims advocates warn some women fearing for their safety this Christmas will not call the police, thinking they will be ...

An out-of-control bushfire in Victoria's Grampians National Park continues to threaten communities after the inferno tripled ...