In the latest ODT Summer Sports chat we catch with catch up with head honcho of surf life-saving in Otago and Southland Brent Matehaere to find out what is happening over summer.

Costs for four planned facilities at Green Island have more than doubled to $42m since an estimate four years ago, but the DCC says there is no budget blowout of its resource recovery project. A ...

A former National prime minister has warned the ACT Party is "inviting civil war" with its attempt to define the principle of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in law. Mike Johnson says a congressional ethics ...

A year on from the 2023 election, Labour leader Chris Hipkins reflects on his prime ministership with ODT political editor Mike Houlahan and considers how he can get the job back. The government says ...

Ōtepoti's only hip-hop festival is poised to have its biggest year yet. A silent pandemic of drug-resistant infections has ...

Police say three women facing shoplifting charges left the courtroom and went on to steal the number plates off a vehicle parked directly outside. A crew of volunteer firefighters encountered "every ...

A police investigation is underway after a staff member at one of the country's most prestigious schools resigned over "inappropriate online activity". Minister of Small Business has told Parliament ...

Three gang associates have been arrested after armed police raided a Christchurch property linked to the Mongols MC, just days before the gang is set to hold an event to mark its fifth anniversary in ...

Waterloo, Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Thank You For The Music - these are just some of Abba’s greatest hits that the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra will perform in its latest crossover concert.

President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party is set to control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, ...

Police say the supply of methamphetamine into the South has been "significantly disrupted" owing to recent raids targeting a motorcycle gang's drug network. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has given ...

NZ rock greats Shihad have announced their last ever tour and will play at Rhythm and Alps in Wānaka this summer.