“As we've all seen on Succession, sometimes the best laid plans don't always come through as hoped!” Neon's owner says.

Alleged cases of abuse directed to Ashburton business owners and staff due to Covid-19 restrictions have angered the district's mayor.

REVIEW: No one comes out of this looking great, but Becky Read’s skill is in subtly – and not-so subtly – shifting our sympathies and allegences.

Levi Haami, who died after being attacked in a supermarket car park, had 'a million questions about life'.

Rene Wolff is the third high profile departure from the national sporting body in two weeks.

The 10-year-old, who was part of a repatriation flight, earlier returned two weak positive tests. A third has now come back negative.

Prince Charles has contributed, but fundraising for the $154m of quake repairs is understood to be far from what is needed.

The Nelson man planned to protest the lockdown by driving around town, court hears.

Staff parties should be "moderate and conservative", Auditor-General warns, as other schools are highlighted for wrongly claiming Covid wage subsidy.

A mechanic spent four hours using his Toyota Landcruiser to haul out 11 vehicles the flooded Riverbank car park after levels began to rise on Monday.

REVIEW: A hybrid of Spies Like Us, Rambo III, Zoolander, The Newsroom, this is more scatological and scatterbrained, than a genuine comedy.

The station has been marked as a high-risk location after being visited by a person with Covid-19 on Sunday afternoon.

There are 135 new cases of Covid-19 in the Delta outbreak in Auckland, Waikato, and Canterbury.

The Southern District Health Board is concerned about how it will accommodate visitors to Southland and Otago if they contract Covid-19 over the summer holidays.

The slice of untouched coastal land in the Coromandel has been sold to a trust for $2.15m.

A person has been injured in a firearms incident in the central Southland town of Winton, police say.

A teenager stamped on the cars and pushed a police officer into a rusty nail during his drunken rampage, but is likely to escape conviction.

Not a single National MP is of Pasifika descent, three are Māori, while less than a third are women.

A health board boss says a national midwife shortage is posing an "extreme risk", which could cause care delays for Southland mums as Southland Hospital struggles to fill vacancies.

Ajaz Patel misses out on player of the match award, but claims two other prizes despite massive defeat for Black Caps.