Southland Hospital acting general manager Jo McLeod said the mariner was taken to hospital on Wednesday afternoon for “assessment and possibly ongoing care”.

A company was under pressure to meet supply demands when it tried to make the active ingredient in the pesticide 1080 and a worker ended up in an induced coma.

The first lot of group 4 can book their Covid-19 jab appointment from today, but gaps remain in the vaccination of frontline health staff, prisoners and in aged care.

Scrapping the Milford Sound airstrip has quickly been meet with strong opposition from some Queenstown tourism businesses.

A 32-year-old woman has been charged after a search warrant in Carterton on Wednesday morning.

Irish physiotherapist Kirsty Moffett had been celebrating her birthday when she was killed in a Central Otago crash last year. She would never make it to her sister's wedding.

A Central Otago teenager has been reported missing after she was last seen getting off a school bus on Tuesday morning.

Detectives didn't even know Ricky Wang was missing when they were told he had been murdered two years previously, court hears.

The woman was found in her Christchurch home by her teenage son. Police are investigating how she came to be critically injured.

A number of roads have been closed after a vehicle overturned in Maraetai.

Ray Shin "thought the knife was a kid’s toy", moments later he saw blood on his hands.

Jacinda Ardern got the shot the day the vaccine rollout was extended to the general population.

"I purchased my land, and I look after my land. I want the right to look after my land and pass it on to my children and my children’s children." Angry residents force Upper Hutt City Council to defer its discussion about Significant Natural Areas.

Dairy farmer Laurence Rooney believes he would have been better off if his farm got M bovis than the “hit” it took during Canterbury's recent flood.

Lighting up two old oak threes has been “a little bit more problematic” than first thought.

Professor of Psychology Douglas Elliffe steps down from acting dean role following backlash to a letter he signed dismissing mātauranga Maori.

The bright, bubbly teenager was farewelled by the Gisborne community on Tuesday. "She was all go. Whatever there was to do in Gisborne she’d go and do it.”

A large fire at a plastics factory is wreaking traffic havoc in the east Auckland suburb of Burswood.

Māori and Pacific leaders are backing a new Covid-19 clinic based in a suburban mall, and implore whānau to get the jab.

There could be up to 1250 people in Taranaki with hepatitis C but more than half of them probably don’t know they are unwell.