Evan Harding

Resources Minister Shane Jones has assured the quarry sector that the New Zealand First party will not jump into bed with parties on the left at the November election.

However, police are refusing to say if a “person of interest” has been located and spoken to.

A New Zealand First election policy to fund a $1 billion survey of offshore oil and gas reserves won't work without regulatory certainty, a leader at Southland's regional development agency Great South says.

A commercial fishing boat deckhand has lost his job and been convicted in a criminal court after admitting to unlawfully selling crayfish to associates.

Christopher Brown was 19 when he was part of a group involved in the killing of McAllister in Invercargill on June 7, 2017.

On drugs and naked from the waist down, a man's erratic behaviour on an Invercargill street prompted multiple calls to police.

Student attendance rates at Bluff School have improved significantly, marking an early sign of progress after a critical Education Review Office (ERO) report in 2025.

A young man broke another man's jaw in two places with a single punch at a Te Anau residential address.

The Local Government Commission has enlisted consultants to compare the costs and efficiencies of Southland's two local government reform options.

The Southland District Council has agreed to put in a proposal to the Government's Head Start local government reorganisation process, and says it