A rogue broadcaster, a rock god and a poet made an impact at Christchurch’s annual writers festival.

A documentary and podcast series re-examines the death of a Christchurch scientist and aid worker in Ukraine.

Two dozen staff at Australia’s Macquarie Island research base in the Southern Ocean will be evacuated to avoid the psychological harm of seeing bird flu wipe out thousands of elephant seals during the spring breeding season.

Damien “Red” Clarke has been embraced by the New Regent St business community as a friend and budding artist.

An extraordinary interview with NZ's most original literary novelist.

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has honoured the late Sir Sam Neill with a donation to a Central Otago anti-mining group.

The news broke on Christmas Day, 2011. That was the day a man named Wayne Keen found the body of 83-year-old Allan Hill, who had disappeared nearly six months earlier.

ACT Party leader David Seymour says his protested event in Christchurch is proof “our democracy is strong”.

EDITORIAL: The causes of homelessness are complex and require compassion.

What started as a small gathering at the University of Canterbury has led to 40 years of some of New Zealand’s most sceptical minds waging campaigns against those who would use pseudoscience to trick Kiwis out of their money and the truth.

EDITORIAL: Pegasus residents have every right to be upset.

Sam Neill was the best of us, comfortable on both a farm and a movie set

How did a mostly forgotten New Zealand scientist and arts patron become an internet bogeyman?

For generations, the Bucket Tree has stood on the Tawa skyline like a friendly oddity — a perfectly trimmed green bucket perched above the suburb, equal parts landmark and local legend.

Documents reveal ministers regularly stayed at high-end hotels while urging restraint across government.

New polling shows National is well behind Labour on the issue voters say is their top concern - the cost of living.

In a bombshell move, the high profile columnist and business person has been appointed Post editor

Creative NZ is proposing to cut almost a third of its workforce as it looks down the barrel of a $1.3m budget cut and prepares to shift many of its functions to regional partners.

A Nelson academic has won a top prize at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

OPINION: Canterbury’s Anglicans would not have voted to reinstate the Christ Church Cathedral if they were told parish funds would be needed, says the Bishop.

OPINION: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it shall never pass into nothingness.” Thus wrote Keats on the subject of my coffee plunger.

The most pressing need for young people is face-to-face contact, Youth Hub founder Dr Sue Bagshaw says.

The exhilarating, celebrated and tragic story of Dunedin legends The Clean

The magnificent writing in Elizabeth Knox's new memoir never really lets up

OPINION: He’s an old man who lives in fear of being found out.

Acclaimed tech founder and New Zealander of the Year Sir Rod Drury was the subject of a complaint alleging misconduct, which led to an investigation when he was CEO of a major tech company, a Stuff investigation can reveal.

OPINION: Public trust in news in has risen for the first time since records began in 2020.

The Redcliffs land was once a burial ground of the Waitaha people, a collective name for the first Polynesians to settle the South Island in the 1300s.

The war in Iran reminds New Zealanders there was a time when that country and ours were friends. Could a regime change in Iran bring those times back?

Christchurch-based Soraya Lane is by no means alone in the South Island as a respected international figure in a genre that is sometimes overlooked in literary circles.

Minnesota took centre stage, in what organisers expected to be mass demonstrations involving millions of people. The event's headliner was Bruce Springsteen, who performed “Streets of Minneapolis”.