Heavy rain for the west of the South Island easing overnight Monday, gale west to northwest winds for central and southern New Zealand. A series of cold fronts, preceded by strong west to northwest flow and followed by cold southwesterlies, are expected to move north across the country overnight Mon

Work is underway to contain an oil leak into Milford Sound after a fire on a fishing boat early this morning. Fire and Emergency were alerted to the blaze in Deep Water Basin just after 4am, which has since been extinguished. The Milford Sound Fire Brigade fought the blaze with Te Anau firefighters,

National will deliver a suite of much-needed transport projects that will shorten journey times, improve safety, create jobs and support tourism in the deep south. National’s Southern Transport Package includes a range of projects across Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown and the wider Southern regio

Cabinet will meet again on Monday 21st September to decide if gatherings in Auckland can be increased and whether or not the rest of the country can move to alert level 1. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Cabinet has decided to extend the current alert levels. “On the advice of the director-genera

There is one new community case of Covid-19 reported today, of a girl linked to the Auckland cluster. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the child had been in isolation since 30 August due to being a household contact of a confirmed case. The case is linked to the Botany sub-cluster which h

The Lumsden Heritage Trust has staged another audacious recovery of a piece of New Zealand railways history. Yesterday a team of contractors rescued an 1883 wooden passenger carriage which had been sitting on a farm at Wairio, in western Southland, since 1952, and transported it 64km to Lumsden, its

Fire and Emergency received a call shortly after 4am to the boat at Fisherman’s Wharf in Deepwater Basin. Brent Dunn from the Fire and Emergency southern communications centre said the Milford Sound Fire Brigade was fighting the fire. “Any crews which would normally respond from Te Anau are unable t

Weird History is taking you back to the year 1985. We are mid-80s, the middle of the decade would be the catalyst for such great movies as Back to the Future and Rambo: First Blood Part II, Mike Tyson’s first professional fight, and the start of such great 80s TV hits like MacGyver. Take a […]