South Island

• Country: New Zealand

Dunedin aged care centre crowned South Island’s best

• Country: New Zealand

Summer rental market begins to heat up in the South Island

The national rental market looks relatively calm, but renters in several South Island regions are facing sharply higher weekly rents, more than twice the national average.

• Country: New Zealand

Family violence: South Island doctor says daughter taken to father despite safety fears

The South Island doctor says family violence does not discriminate by social status.

• Country: New Zealand

How Australia’s most dangerous gang dominated the South Island drug trade, then lost it all

For eight months, the Comanchero Motorcycle Club pumped millions of dollars of methamphetamine and cocaine into the South Island. Then, police arrested everyone involved.

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• Country: New Zealand

South Island's new weather radar gets a home

A radar site near Horoirangi Peak has been chosen, with ministers citing repeated flooding in the region.