Sitting less than 20 miles south of South Island across the Foveaux Strait, Steward Island is New Zealand's third-largest island. An hourlong ferry ride from the South Island's southernmost town of ...

Those that brave the trek across an oft-choppy southerly passage are rewarded with a heaping portion of untouched natural grandeur, even by New Zealand’s outsized standards. Only the most passionate ...

We distill six lessons from a sea kayak expedition around New Zealand’s Stewart Island, a wild, barren island in the Southern Ocean. At the bottom of New Zealand is another, smaller lesser-known ...

Power prices on Rakiura/Stewart Island will jump for a second time this year, but there's hope on the horizon.  On Wednesday, ...

An open ocean tugboat is on its way to rescue an oil and chemical tanker stuck off the coast of Stewart Island. Maritime NZ said the Golden Mind tanker got into steering difficulties west of the ...