Nelson Region

More cases of the gastro bug cryptosporidiosis have appeared in Blenheim, with the focus now on early childcare centres, the Nelson-Marlborough medical officer of health says.

Police are investigating two separate armed robberies over the weekend, one in Auckland and one in Nelson.

Police have shot and wounded a man in Nelson overnight after he threatened them, saying he had a gun.

Three 15-year-olds will appear in the Nelson Youth Court today after members of the public interrupted a dairy robbery in the city.

Heavy rain and snow have hit the South Island in the past 24 hours with reports of flooding and cars having to be towed.

The Green Party will fight National's Nick Smith for the Nelson seat in this year's election, the first time the party has tried to win a seat since 1999.

A body has been found in the remains of a house fire in Nelson, police say.

Up to 900 new homes and 450 new sections could be on the way for Nelson after the government and local council extended the city's housing accord.

A real estate agent has been fined $10,000 for work labelled seriously negligent when he bought a client's house.

A Nelson resident says the city council is using a back-door way to build more houses that are unlikely to be affordable anyway.

A man who was at the centre of an Armed Offenders Squad callout in Richmond, near Nelson, has been found.

A Nelson-based World War II pilot who cheated death on wartime raids over Europe now feels cheated out of a government-subsidised plaque for a headstone.

Nelson College is devastated after a senior student was suspended and two others sanctioned following "serious acts of bullying", the school's headmaster says. Audio

First Person - After today's Fairfax and NZME merger rejection, Nelson Mail alumni Tracy Neal visits her old paper at a crucial time in its history. Video

A terminally ill man has been sent to prison for just under five years on a list of sexual violation and indecency charges.

The Nelson Marlborough DHB is set to begin its review in response to the case of a severely autistic 20-year-old murdered by her mother.

A Nelson couple have been sentenced after defrauding about $245,000 from the Ministry of Social Development over 15 years.

The widow of one of the two men killed by a US tourist's careless driving near Nelson says it was an accident and she forgives him. Video, Audio