Lynda van Kempen

Dunstan Hospital's CT scanner will open at the start of June ''debt-free'' thanks to the fund-raising efforts of the wider Central Otago community. A cheque for $100,000 was presented to

An Alexandra man is marvelling at the ''proper fluke'' which led to the recovery of an unusual, long-lost family heirloom - a 20-point stag trophy head.

A trek to Mt Everest Base Camp has given a group of Cromwell College pupils renewed admiration for the feat of Sir Edmund Hillary and great respect for the Sherpa people of Nepal.

The nine pupils returned to school yesterday after their ''tr

The Environment Court has rejected an appeal against an application by a Ripponvale couple to retain their existing home as accommodation for workers or travellers after they build a new house on the property.

Roxburgh's longest-serving fireman, Colin Robb, says half a century of answering the fire siren's call seems to have gone in a flash.

Entertainer John Grenell proved he still has pulling power after half a century in the music industry, with a couple of ''groupies'' tussling over him during his performance in the Bards, Ballads and Bulldust Festival at the Chalet Rest Home in Ranfurly.

Round two of a wrangle between the owners of Earnscleugh's Grasshopper Rock vineyard and their next-door neighbours, who want to subdivide, was played out this week.

The Maniototo's annual salute to bush poetry and rural balladeers being staged this weekend will be ''everywhere, man'', in the words of guest artist John Grenell.

Complaints to the Otago Regional Council's pollution hotline about seven Central Otago bonfires within 48 hours has prompted a warning that such behaviour will be ''stamped out'' and the worst offenders prosecuted.

Allies from the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt in Central Otago must have embarrassed the Otago Regional Council, as they revealed the ineffectiveness of its pest management, submitters said this week.