National is pledging to upgrade roads and bridges around the lower South Island as well as exploring the feasibility of commuter rail between Dunedin and Mosgiel. Read...

Trains, planes and cycling are part of National`s plan for improved transport links in Otago, Southland and South Canterbury. Read...

A spate of fatal crashes has pushed the road toll in the bottom of the south to 25 – one short of 2019, with a third of the year to go. Read...

Warm spring predicted, dry in south, sub-tropical rain storm chance for northeast. Read...

Those in the upper South Island and lower North Island have been rattled by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake tonight.The 7.51pm quake struck 20 kilometres south-east of St Arnaud, a hamlet 80 kilometres south of Nelson, according to Geonet.It... Read...

Downpours and thunderstorms could strike some parts of the South Island. Read...

`Survival rates` on rental homes in Queenstown, emptied of tourists by the pandemic, have seen new rental contracts in the South Island settling almost 10 per cent lower than a year earlier.Throughout the South Island, excluding... Read...

On 27 March South Port provided a Covid-19 Pandemic update when the Company made a slight adjustment to its profit guidance advising that it was now expected that full year earnings would be at the lower end of the previous estimated profit range of $8.2M Read...

The Transport Agency has issued warnings for ice on the highways in the lower South Island. Read...

Lower South Island electricity supplier Aurora Energy has applied to increase prices to fund a $383 million network investment plan. Read...