Photography is a colonial art form, historically feared by Māori people. Reed waka were essential for life in the south, writes Seán Brosnahan. The owners of this house relocated from a city where ...

Dunedin’s Netherworld Dancing Toys became the country’s top band with the release of Painted Years in 1985. In recent months Dunedin’s Neville Peat has received major recognition for half a century of ...

Tūhura Otago Museum senior events co-ordinator Jessica Hatfield gives a giant African millipede a kiss as part of Bug Day.

As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the world into uncharted waters, Star Media journalists and photographers continue to report local stories that matter everyday - yours. For more than 152 years our ...

Freedom campers are welcome on the South Island's West Coast, but too many are leaving unwanted deposits behind.

More jobs are on the line at Kāinga Ora and a staffer has told RNZ they are stressed, exhausted and disheartened by leaders telling them to stay positive. Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Foreign ...

Residents around Queenstown's Park St are peed off about tourists using Lake Wakatipu as their bath and the nearby streets as a toilet.

ACT leader David Seymour is the acting Prime Minister this week, with Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters both overseas. Drunken revellers who caused headaches for Twizel residents and businesses on ...

Heart Eyes is a competent convergence of ’90s and 2000s-inspired romantic comedies with the contemporary slasher revival of the past decade. Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt has reportedly arrived in ...

Brassicas put in the garden in late December or during January will need protection from hungry bugs, and it's time to plant ...