Olivia Caldwell

Wayne Oxenham completed his first adventure race a decade ago and has been into the sport ''way over his head'' since.

Cheetahs captain Adriaan Strauss is promising the Highlanders a dogfight in Invercargill tomorrow.

Otago firefighters have returned home with a sense of achievement after 21 days fighting Victorian bushfires.

This weekend's Motatapu event will involve two of the most compelling rematches of the summer's endurance racing event calendar.

The St Joseph's Catholic parish in Queenstown and Arrowtown celebrated its 150-year anniversary at the weekend.

Construction of a much-anticipated children's playground at Jack's Point began this week. It is due to be completed by June.

Otago Polytechnic students Robbie Reid and Mike Scott were grounds-keeping at the Queenstown Events centre last week when the England Cricket test side played the New Zealand XI. In all, 13 grounds-keeping interns took care of two of the most important turfs in the area.

The PGA pro-am last week brought about an unlikely partnership between two people who are no strangers to the limelight.

A historic house once home to ''the man who tried to burn down Queenstown'' in the great fire of 1882 is on the market.

If Jamie McDell's singing career does not work out, the songstress will take up jet-boat driving - at least, that is what she has decided since riding on the Shotover Jet this week.