Following a record number of submissions to the Council's Draft Long-Term Plan, the public are now being encouraged to watch the upcoming public hearings and debate that will lead to the plan being finalised in June.

Police have received a number of calls about a diesel spill on SH 29 at the top of the Kaimais. The spill extends for about 4kms on either side of the summit in the west-bound lanes.

Education Minister Hon Hekia Parata has today released a series of recommendations on how to improve the quality of early childhood education (ECE).

After the release of the 2012 budget, students are left wondering why, once again, they have been targeted.

New Zealand is continuing to neglect our Pacific neighbours at the time they need it most, says the Global Poverty Project, an international development NGO.

"Bloody ridiculous" said MANA Leader Hone Harawira in condemning the prison sentences handed down today in the case of the Urewera Four.

At about 11.50 p.m. on Wednesday 23rd May 2012 Invercargill Police were involved in the pursuit of a fleeing driver who failed to stop for a marked patrol car on Queens Drive, Invercargill.

The vehicle being driven by a male driver lost control and crashed into a tree on Queens Drive.

Northwest gales affecting exposed inland parts of Southland, Otago and Canterbury are expected to ease overnight Thursday as a front crosses these areas. Severe gales are looking increasingly unlikely, however a Watch will be maintained for the time being.

New Zealand today failed to honour its promises to assist the poorest communities in the world work their way out of poverty by slashing $133 million from its Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budget over the next three years, putting us even further behind OECD peers, says international deve

Hindus have welcomed American singer-actress Miley Cyrus' reported advocacy of meditation.

In a recent television program "The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet", she urged other girls to "Wake-up?be by yourself, go meditate, go spend 10 minutes like really looking at yourself".