Rolling Dough pizza truck is wheeling around Christchurch, stopping in a number of suburbs very week.

Lisa Kircher is turning unwanted and donated textiles into custom dog clothing, giving old garments a second life while helping owners keep their pets comfortable.

A central Christchurch house fire which broke out on Monday afternoon is being treated as suspicious.

ANALYSIS: The Kiwis already have arguably the best forward pack in the world, but Kalyn Ponga and Dane Gagai add star quality to the backline.

Polling for the parties was released ahead of 1News' leaders debate with Labour's Chris Hipkins and National's Christopher Luxon.

The Wellington-Westport air route will return in December, but Originair says longer-term government support is still needed to keep the service running.

The disciplinary tribunal said if Sam Bailey hadn’t already had her registration cancelled, they would have done it again.

Sofitel Queenstown brings a distinctly French flavour to the heart of the adventure capital.

The Northwest Passage was once the stuff of heroic exploration; today, it can be experienced from a hybrid-powered expedition ship with balconies, fine dining, kayaks and a science centre.

“While we’ve got some fantastic ideals about the tax system,” said Labour’s Deborah Russell, “we have an election to win.”

Drones are being deployed above the Tekapo River to track down isolated wilding pines, marking a high-tech phase in the fight against invasive conifers in the Mackenzie Basin.

The promise has been slammed as “desperate and dangerous” by NZ First leader Winston Peters, who argues it would jeopardise years of work rebuilding New Zealand’s relationships and restoring its influence on the world stage.

Fuel costs are continuing to bite, as Canterbury’s regional council grapples with an increase in demand for bus services.

A freshwater pest has been discovered in a pristine Fiordland river, prompting a warning for trampers, anglers, hunters and other waterway users to help stop it spreading.

The three tsunami evacuation zones along South Canterbury’s coastline are being amalgamated into one as part of a nationwide plan to simplify emergency messaging.

A close friend of a woman missing near Queenstown is not giving up hope that she will be found safe, as search crews continue to comb land around Coronet Peak.

Firefighters are scrambling to protect Queenstown’s famous Walter Peak station from a large vegetation fire that is sending huge plumes of smoke across Lake Wakatipu.

Councillors have approved a proposal to sell Mackenzie’s Alpine Energy shares, with the final decision to follow community consultation.

Barbara Edmonds has refused to say whether she will reverse any of the current Government’s benefit reforms, after her fiscal plan allocated no new money to social development.

Infratil owns almost half of CDC, which this week confirmed it had ended a deal with one of Australia’s fastest-growing, and most controversial, data centre developers.

An allegation of racial comments directed towards young rugby players has prompted a warning that such behaviour, if proven, will not be tolerated.

Nicola Willis says Labour’s numbers diverge from those in a 2025 Treasury table, but Barbara Edmonds says there’s a reason for that.

While cameras rolled thousands of metres above sea level, alpine supervisor and safety co-ordinator Guy Cotter carried one of Tenzing's most important roles: getting everyone off the mountain safely at the end of each day.

A ministerial tour of progress on Southland’s new regional museum highlighted benefits to the country’s tourism infrastructure.

Daria Shipilova, an employee at an anti-plague research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region, died after accidentally breaking the test tube on September 25.

ANALYSIS: The All Whites predictably lost the Kirin Cup final to Japan but return from Asia after a positive tour following head coach’s post-World Cup rebuild.

Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the National Party’s attack on her party’s tax plan is backfiring.

German national Jonas Aust will likely be deported after Christchurch District Court Judge Katie Elkin sentenced him to five and a half months’ home detention.

A popular outdoor education centre near Nelson is preparing for a heightened risk of wildfire this summer.

The national rental market looks relatively calm, but renters in several South Island regions are facing sharply higher weekly rents, more than twice the national average.

Conservationists are concerned an Army training exercise held in Lyttelton Harbour last week went ahead despite the potential risk to endangered Hector’s dolphins.

Conducted during September, the survey showed a net 40% of firms expect general economic conditions to improve in coming months, compared to a net 14% in the June quarter.

A Hanmer Springs cafe has been given until the end of the year to sell its business after the Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority upheld a decision refusing to renew its liquor licence.

A man who grabbed his pregnant former partner by the throat and pressed his full body weight onto her stomach has been released from custody to begin 18 months of intensive supervision.

National has pledged to hike Pharmac’s medicines budget by $604 million, largely paid for by reducing foreign aid outside the Pacific, if re-elected.

Christchurch’s tsunami evacuation system is changing, with a single blue evacuation zone replacing the city’s red, orange and yellow zones from Tuesday, October 6.

A New Zealand Army exercise based around a fictional weapon-smuggling camp has been completed on Banks Peninsula.

The property had been in a state of disrepair for some time, with an estimated repair bill of $1.6 million.

Police are still looking for a missing 21-year-old father after a search of his last known residence.

A vehicle has crashed into a median barrier in Christchurch causing traffic holdups on a main arterial route in Burwood.

COMMENT: National’s campaign machine is impressive, but it doesn’t seem to have convinced more than a very rusted-on quarter of the population to back National.

The person arrived at Christchurch Hospital looking for help with a wound on Monday evening.

Nvidia’s deal to buy AI chip designer Groq was alleged to have left the startup’s stockholders shortchanged. Two former engineers claim the deal “squeezed out” stockholders, and that Groq’s board approved the transaction without a required stockholder vote.

Police are investigating the deaths of two people in Buller as a murder-suicide, The Press understands.

The All Whites end their Asian tour with two wins - one on penalties - a draw and a defeat after tumbling 2-1 in Tokyo to world number 17 Japan.

National has plunged below 26 percent in a new RNZ-Reid Research poll, while the Greens have surged about a month out from voting day.

A man is facing numerous charges after allegedly driving a luxury rental car through a paddock to evade police, and prompting an Armed Offenders Squad response in Timaru.

Just over a year after a Christchurch retirement village was closed, plans have been released to convert it into a luxury boutique hotel and spa.