Liam Coltman embodies everything that’s loved about provincial rugby and championed its cause before Otago and Canterbury’s ...

Twelve members of the All Blacks Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship squad will represent their Provincial Unions this weekend during Round 6 of the Bunnings Warehouse NPC.

Canterbury have won their first NPC title in eight years with a storming second half performance to deny Otago 36-28 in ...

They may be rank outsiders to qualify for the Mitre 10 Cup championship semifinals, but the Southland Stags rugby team are still a chance. Hoani Macdonald's greenhorns are yet to win a game in the ...

Rugby coach Peter Russell, most credited with reviving Magpies’ fortunes with an historic first NPC top division semi-final in his first season at the helm Hawke’s Bay in 2007, died suddenly on ...

This week on Rugby Direct, Elliott Smith and Nick Bewley discuss the impending NPC final between Canterbury and Otago and determine where it might be won and lost, as well as contend with the fact the ...

Playing NPC rugby at Eden Park at night seems like a head-scratching decision, writes one reader. Photo / Photosport Is it any wonder that Eden Park emptied the moment that the fabulous game of ...

The All Blacks will travel to Melbourne for their fifth round Rugby Championship clash against Australia without loose forwards Ardie Savea and Shannon Frizell, New Zealand Rugby said on Monday.

Looking back on three decades of Super Rugby, the Crusaders truly cemented themselves as one of the great dynasties of modern ...