Being frightened of foreign paramilitary forces seems laughable, sitting in the Maniototo sunshine, yet the fear is real enough for my companion to refuse to show her face in a photograph.
When the government announced it was looking into the cost of the Ka Ora, Ka Ako, Healthy School Lunches programme, many schools and families across the country expressed shock and dismay.
A full pedestrianisation of George St is "inevitable" now that businesses have been given a taste of a street without traffic, a Dunedin city councillor says.
Sports leaders planning games at a Dunedin park lined with homeless people in tents are meeting with city leaders to demand a solution to the "concerning" situation in plain sight.
Books are hot to trot at The Next Chapter, celebrating its fourth birthday this year and was recently included in US writer Elizabeth Stamp’s "150 bookshops to visit before you die".
New Zealand Food Safety is monitoring overseas recalls of Indian packaged spice products manufactured by MDH and Everest due to concerns over a cancer-causing pesticide.
Reports of a firearm that prompted at least a dozen armed police to swarm a central Auckland building has turned out to be a long piece of photographic equipment.
Sharyn and Grant Stalker, the developers of Queenstown’s Shotover Country, last week celebrated the last sale in their subdivision with a function for their ‘project control group’.
Despite their users numbering in the millions, there’s little science to tell us whether dating apps work. But that might be about to change, reports Laura Spinney.
In my first column for Mana Wāhine last year, I shared that a recent discovery was that my grandmother had spent her first years living on ancestral land, immersed in her Māori world.
Three bodies found in Mexico are likely to belong to two Australian brothers and a US friend who went missing in the area last week, local authorities say.
King Charles and other senior British royals are to relinquish patronages of almost 200 charities and organisations after a review of their association with more than 1000 groups.
Heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 39 people, local authorities say, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens still have not been accounted for.
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including incredulous decision-making, borrowing money to give to the rich, and a biblical perspective on world events
Southern Say has highlighted the many attempts by our local MPs to get any indication at all from Health Minister Shane Reti that he'll deliver a National pledge to restore plans for the new Dunedin hospital (mostly) to the way they were.