The Latest Breaking News from South Island

Five people died in New Zealand on Saturday when a boat carrying 11 capsized off Kaikoura, a coastal town on the South Island, according to police.

Five people died in New Zealand on Saturday when a boat carrying 11 capsized off Kaikoura, a coastal town on South Island, according to police.

Torrential rains hit New Zealand's South Island on Wednesday, flooding rivers, houses and roads and forcing roughly 200 households to evacuate, media reported.

The South Island’s biggest council suffers a second straight poor survey result – this time from its staff.

When new stock wintering rules designed to protect waterways were imposed on a century-old South Island dairying property, the owners bet their nest egg to build an enormous barn.

Severe gales on New Zealand's South Island mean rescuers cannot reach the site of a light plane crash in the Southern Alps.

New Zealand may seem to be under meteor bombardment at the moment. After a huge meteor exploded above the sea near Wellington on July 7, creating a sonic boom that could be heard across the bottom of the South Island, a smaller fireball was captured two weeks later above Canterbury.

Wellington poets storm the South Island

As the South Island’s “We(s)t” Coast continues to live up to its name, the flow of public money for keeping the locals dry is unabated.