Emergency services are responding to a landslip in a residential Dunedin suburb. Police said they were called to the slip on Belmont Lane in Musselburgh at around 10.50am. Belmont Lane and surrounding ...

Firefighters helped two people escape their cars after they drove into floodwaters overnight amid a deluge hitting the Banks Peninsula.

UPDATE: 17 February, 3.45pm SH75 to remain closed overnight: State Highway 75/Christchurch Akaroa Road, between Gebbies Pass ...

From the moment I learned of the existence of Hector’s dolphins, seeing these creatures in the flesh shot straight to the top of my wildlife-encounter bucket list. Not only are they the smallest ...

Canterbury's popular tourist spot Akaroa Harbour is set to become a marine reserve to recognise the marine environment as the "new frontier for conservation". Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith ...

It may have a Maori moniker, but Akaroa is a little slice of France nestled on New Zealand’s South Island. ** A picturesque B&B built in the 1870s. It was one of the town’s first doctor’s surgeries.

The picturesque tourist town of Akaroa is no longer cut-off from Christchurch after the main road, shut yesterday after torrential rain caused flooding, wa ...