It's back to freezing temps in the south today.

The inaugural Bakels Legendary Sausage Roll compeition is under way.

Vacaay has released its Future of Travel Report – 2021.

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Melissa Ewings was last seen just before dusk near her home in Clarence.

Biddle says Shadbolt had tears in his eyes as he told her he envied her decision to quit.

Senior constable thanked his assailant for the apology.

The Christchurch company has consent for the next 20 years to discharge contaminants.

Prices were a record high - but no comparison to Auckland

Staff were told to prep a plate of cheese rolls, but the guest of honour never showed.

New model simulates chaos a major Alpine Fault quake would cause for South Island roads.

The men went into action when another patron joked that "there's someone dead in there".

For three days they fretted - and the animals miraculously survived.

A six-minute phone call to police has wound up in evidence against her.

Fires continue to rage in Mackenzie Basin after consuming 5500 hectares.

A decision made only minutes before accident saved a six-year-old boy from being crushed.

Hebe the border collie needed to go out around 3am. Her owners will be forever grateful.

Livingstone farmer Dan Johnstone describes the firefighters' work as 'magic'.

A Queenstown helicopter company has been sold back to its former owner.

Emergency services are at a fertiliser plant after an accident involving sulphur.

Funding was officially locked in yesterday for Christchurch's new multi-use arena.

46 homes were destroyed, with thousands of hectares surrounding the village scorched.

Stunned locals describe 'cars that look like a Molotov cocktail exploded inside them'.

Up to 50 houses have been destroyed by fire at Lake Ōhau village.

The vegetation on conservation land is a 'huge risk' to neighbours, mayor says.

'I'm trying to find a pair of undies; I have my phone and clothes on my back.'

Retired farmland and rampant wilding pines make a "huge" stockpile of fire-ready fuel.

Eleven helicopters and seven ground crews battling huge Canterbury fire.

'It was pretty dramatic,' says family who had camped about 5km across the lake.

Samuel Anderson had been in the relationship for only a few months when violence started.