Four people have been arrested and police say they have seized a "significant amount" of illicit drugs in joint operations in West Coast and Canterbury.
Pupils are fleeing a troubled North Otago school, putting it at risk of losing teachers and staff as its roll spirals downwards, an official report warns.
The Teviot Valley Water Care group last week established native plantings to reduce the amount of phosphate entering the Cave Creek catchment through soil run-off.
The state of emergency in New Caledonia presents a considerable challenge for NZ's foreign policy efforts in the Pacific, international relations expert Prof Robert Patman says.
A Christchurch man and his company are facing charges relating to what Internal Affairs believes is the largest illegal lottery identified in NZ to date.
With the oldest population in the European Union, where one in four are aged over 65, it's little surprise that Italy is home to the world's fastest 90-year-old woman sprinter.
PD talks to two of the in-form players in club rugby: the block-busting No 8 from Southern, Konrad Toleafoa and 6ft 8 giant from the Sharks, Josh Tengblad.
Dairy cooperative Fonterra is looking to sell all or part of its global consumer business as it shifts its focus to becoming a global business-to-business provider of dairy nutrition products.
Beekeepers say New Zealand needs a new approach to a hive-destroying disease that is leaving those affected out of pocket, uncompensated and devastated.
A Catlins family is preparing to celebrate the hard work and perseverance of past and present generations who overcame adversity to remain farming the same block of land since 1893.
Despite having an evolutionary history of more than 150 million years and surviving the extinction of dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is critically endangered in the Pacific region.
Carol Clay's daughter became concerned her mother's affair with Russell Hill would be made public when police approached her about telling media they had gone missing together, a jury has been told.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the US.
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including celebrating the George St redesign, reviewing the MMP system, and a morally bankrupt letter.