Central Otago is creating a strategy to shape its economic future with hopes it may ease the pressures from rapid growth.

Police have charged a man with murder after a woman's body was discovered in a burnt-out car. Jasmaine Corin Reihana, 35, was found dead inside the car on 9 September on Ripiro Beach, Dargaville.

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The parents of a boy who died on a school trip to Abbey Caves say they trusted teachers to keep him safe. Whangarei Boys' High School student Karnin Petera drowned when the cave system flooded in May ...