Central Otago is creating a strategy to shape its economic future with hopes it may ease the pressures from rapid growth.

In Focus on politics, RNZ's political editor Jo Moir examines the government's rocky relationship with its Cook Strait ...

Police have charged a man with murder after a woman's body was discovered in a burnt-out car. Jasmaine Corin Reihana, 35, was found dead inside the car on 9 September on Ripiro Beach, Dargaville.

The parents of a boy who died on a school trip to Abbey Caves say they trusted teachers to keep him safe. Whangarei Boys' High School student Karnin Petera drowned when the cave system flooded in May ...