A dedicated group of four set up their chairs and blankets outside the soon-to-open Costco store 16 hours early.

Judicial hearing finds top jockey "initiated a series of events that ultimately led to the fall, and subsequent death, of Taiki Yanagida".

One says trim the budget back to what is realistic, while another wants to explore other creative funding options.

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The car was reportedly falsely listed as stolen in order to trace the women who sent Northland into a Covid-19 lockdown in October 2021.

A team of Christchurch researchers plan to trial a hallucinogenic class A drug - psilocybin (or magic mushrooms) - to treat severe depression.

A woman who was wrongly blamed for her own unfair dismissal after a long-running sexual harassment case wins in Employment Court.

Whatever you do, don't call it 'dirt', says Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste. There is such diversity in our soils, it's a great pity we can't see it all.

Christchurch Casino wants to set up an offshore gambling operation in Malta to bypass NZ laws which ban online gambling.

It was the last straw after three weeks of shouting and the smell of cannabis emanating from the apartment.

Tim Boyd's flight from Fiji touched down in Christchurch on Tuesday afternoon - but he had nothing to say to journalists waiting for him at the airport.

A thumbs up sign by a teenaged hit-and-run victim in hospital suggest his brain injuries are not as bad as feared.

More than a dozen people have been arrested following a spate of robberies – including the daylight smash-and-grab of a jewellery store in Hamilton.

Eight supporters clapped as Sir Tim Shadbolt chaired what may be his final Invercargill council meeting as a mayor, with one supporter saying it’s likely to be the end of a significant era.

The city's councillors want the government to consider resurrecting the Southerner, a passenger rail service that ran between Christchurch and Invercargill six days a week.

Timaru District Council's chief executive has defended his council’s $34m use of consultants, as a national activist group lashes the spending.

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Simple to prepare and endlessly versatile, noodles make the perfect base for a satisfying meal to get you over the midweek hump.

OPINION: With all the fuss around New Zealand's first Costco store let's not forget our own, home-grown, stockpilers' Mecca.