“No consent, no contract”: the words, scrawled in red across a rates invoice, mark the correspondent as one of dozens of “sovereign citizens” (SovCits) around the country who have attempted to avoid ...

Sealord chief executive Doug Paulin, left, and Westfleet managing director Craig Boote celebrate a $6m investment in a brand-new longline vessel, Te Runanga, named after the West Coast town where ...

Kimer Med chief executive, Rick Kiessig said getting 100% positive results against Dengue and Zika was a positive step in the development of a broad-spectrum antiviral drug. Photo: Braden Fastier / ...

Executive Director for Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT), Olivia Hall, says extra investment in student wellbeing is among the benefits so far of NMIT becoming part of Te Pūkenga, New ...

COLUMN: In my very first wine column I included the 1999 Kahurangi Estate Gewurztraminer as my wine pick. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since 2000 when Greg and Amanda Day were in the early ...

As prepositions the particles kei and i have several purposes, including their use in the "pseudo-verbal" constructions described in the previous column. But they both have, also, quite distinct ...

OPINION: Scutt Wines is a tiny producer you may not have heard of before because owners Johnson Scutt and Georgie Hoby Scutt only recently made their wines available for you and me to buy after adding ...

For some, former Nelson Catholic boys' school Sunnybank was a place of loneliness and horrors. Recently, Wellington writer Hinemoana Baker visited the school with her father, and is turning his ...

The animal died at 9.25pm on Friday, the Department of Conservation (DOC) confirmed. It was believed to be a sei whale, the third-largest species on earth, weighing around 30 tonnes. DOC biodiversity ...

Nelson Mayor Nick Smith with Stoke New World owner operator Brendon Rae and Foodstuffs South Island Head of Property Strategy Rebecca Parish outside the current that will be replaced by a new store ...

A photograph in a book on the history showing the tearooms that used to be on the first-floor of the B Trathen Ltd, on Trafalgar St. Photo: MARION VAN DIJK / Not-For-Syndication "We had offered it to ...

Council staff are dealing with an escalation in aggression and threats from “sovereign citizens”, a group who believe they are exempt from New Zealand laws, says a council head. "I think it's fair to ...