Residents have been evacuated from their homes in rural North Canterbury as fire crews battle an uncontained bushfire.

Clarke wanted to be the first person in almost 40 years to achieve a double crossing of New Zealand's Cook Strait but the ...

A Mangawhai resident has been hospitalised after severe winds tore open their home and threw them out of the top storey.

While many agricultural and pastoral shows around the country are struggling, the Morrinsville version is just the opposite.