About 30 of Christchurch's worst youth offenders are responsible for a disproportionate number of robberies, burglaries and violence in the city, police say. (File shot)123RF / Stuff Simon* walked ...

The family of Elisabeth Nicholls, who went missing in the Christchurch suburb of Riccarton last week, are making a further appeal for assistance from the public after no breakthroughs in the search ...

Whether Jordan will be able to get his motor hissing after almost a month on the sideline won’t be known until the game gets started. Even if he’s at 80% of capacity, he’s still a threat at ...

Bad attitude or language, inadequate service and investigation failures are among the most common allegations levelled against police staff in the Central District. Information released to the ...

Trustworthy, accurate and reliable news stories are more important now than ever. Support our newsrooms by making a contribution. A man and a woman are in custody after a police hunt in south ...

Stuff said it had already terminated engagement with NZME before NZME announced to the NZX it was seeking regulatory approval for a takeover.Ricky Wilson / Stuff Trustworthy, accurate and reliable ...

A goat with large horns, not the one pictured, was tasered by Oamaru police after running wild around busy highway.MARION VAN DIJK / FAIRFAX NZ Police have tasered a rampaging goat in an Oamaru ...

Blogger and social media influencer Simone Anderson has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority that she had not made the commercial nature of the relationship behind recent posts clear ...

The proposed solar farm would have been located on Crown pastoral leased land on Balmoral Station (above).George Empson / Supplied The family behind a proposal to build an 88-megawatt solar farm ...

Two weeks ago, a mother from Manurewa in South Auckland, Dagny Reyes-Garcia, rushed her eight-month-old son to the emergency department at Middlemore Hospital as her son was not taking any milk or ...

The owner of the DA's Barn Restaurant & Bar in Picton has been allegedly assaulted after an incident on Thursday night.Matthew Hampson / Stuff The owner of a Picton bar was allegedly punched in ...

Carol Angland, bottom right, has written a play about well-known Timaru man Captain Henry Cain who was poisoned by by his son-in-law. She is seen with cast members, from left, Kit Winter-Davis, as ...