HNZ has removed artwork by John Middleditch from the walls of Dunedin Hospital and decided not to display any of his work in the new hospital following allegations of sexual abuse. An incident on the ...

Protesters have scaled the building used by an international weapons company in Rolleston in a bid to stop it establishing a presence in New Zealand. Principals from schools in the country's poorest ...

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.

The identity of a man accused of sexually abusing four boys at a prestigious Catholic college in Christchurch can now be revealed. Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Foreign Minister Winston Peters must ...

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 ...