Every March, like clockwork, students cram into cars and head to South Padre Island for spring break fun in the sun and ...

Roads are close and homes have lost power in the top of the South Island after heavy flooding and a 12-hour torrent of rain ...

New Zealand’s South Island does not wait long to show its scale. A normal drive can turn into pale-blue lake water, dry grass ...

Does soaring over mesmerizing mountains dotted with goats, sipping Champagne atop remote glaciers, driving through lush forest and gliding through serene fjords tickle your fancy? It's all in a day's ...

Five of New Zealand’s 10 major wine regions occupy the South Island, from Nelson and Marlborough at the northern tip, to pinot powerhouse Central Otago furthest south. Nelson, in the northwest, is ...

It really isn’t fair that just a million people call New Zealand’s South Island home. Why should so few people get to hog such spectacular landscape? (Compared with, say, similarly sized England’s ...

Torrential rain continues to hammer the upper South Island, prompting evacuations, school closures and widespread disruption. States of emergency have been declared across the top of the South Island.

The package includes a new 18-classroom primary school in Lincoln, the expansion of Rolleston College and dozens of ...