A top Kiwi rower who was arrested in the US after a post-regatta celebration bolted from police and then hid in a bush, official documents say.

Connie Francis, the American pop singer who topped the charts in the 1950s and 1960s has died at the age of 87.

Two youths have appeared in court after an early morning masked ransacking of a South Dunedin dairy. A 15-year-old appeared in the Dunedin ...