Queenstown's Citizen Advice Bureau manager says some of Queenstown’s migrant workers have been saddled with yet more pricey government-initiated hurdles to overcome if they want to stay.
A full pedestrianisation of George St is "inevitable" now that businesses have been given a taste of a street without traffic, a Dunedin city councillor says.
Otago and Southland schools have recorded the lowest NCEA level 1 and 2 pass rates in the past 10 years. The results come as no surprise to one Dunedin principal.
Aiming to provide quality, affordable housing on the Frankton Flats, a Queenstown-based developer is launching a 226-home development next week — and hoping to have his first 63 homes completed by...
Being frightened of foreign paramilitary forces seems laughable, sitting in the Maniototo sunshine, yet the fear is real enough for my companion to refuse to show her face in a photograph.
A powerful synthetic cannabinoid that can lead to overdoses, even at low concentrations, and has been linked to serious harm - including deaths - in NZ, has been detected in a yellow powder presumed to be DMT.
Sharyn and Grant Stalker, the developers of Queenstown’s Shotover Country, last week celebrated the last sale in their subdivision with a function for their ‘project control group’.
A nationwide freight transport operation with a depot in Dunedin has gone into liquidation after battling what it says has been "the worst market downturn for freight in New Zealand on record".
Despite their users numbering in the millions, there’s little science to tell us whether dating apps work. But that might be about to change, reports Laura Spinney.
In my first column for Mana Wāhine last year, I shared that a recent discovery was that my grandmother had spent her first years living on ancestral land, immersed in her Māori world.
Three bodies found in Mexico are likely to belong to two Australian brothers and a US friend who went missing in the area last week, local authorities say.
Thousands have gathered on Rio de Janeiro's famous Copacabana beach ahead of a free open-air concert by Madonna, expected to attract 1.5 million people.
King Charles and other senior British royals are to relinquish patronages of almost 200 charities and organisations after a review of their association with more than 1000 groups.
Heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 39 people, local authorities say, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens still have not been accounted for.
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