marlborough express

The driver abandoned the vehicle on a forestry road in Marlborough and fled on foot.

Risque garden art "a little bit offensive", but not meant to offend, says owner.

The rural town lost 26 people during WWI, and 12 during WWII, which "cut the heart out of the community".

Repair costs for the quake-damaged railway line are expected to be over half a billion dollars.

Jim Loe's life is fit for the silver screen. So much so, it's basically been done already.

Hardly any feedback on cycleway project with no shortage of critics prompts second round of consultation.

Firefighters are battling a house fire just north of Oaro, near Kaikōura.

Drivers are still not driving to the conditions with a number of Easter crashes due to inattention, police say.

"Beautiful avenue of trees" closing in on power lines has axe closing in on them.

He lost control and rolled his car on the wet and winding road, prompting renewed pleas from police.

The latest tourism spend figures show the region is up a "whopping great lot" since earthquake.

NZ Air show's thunder stolen by ANZAC partner's modern planes.

A former drug-running plane drops a surprise package over Blenheim at airshow.

New project will put "live" environmental data from all 600 Marlborough Sounds farms at the council's "fingertips".

Sixty-four-year-old flipping houses would have had "literally nothing to show for six months' work" had controversial tax been pushed through.

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