Oamaru

Meet the Zapps.

Herman and Candelaria Zapp and their children, Pampa, Tehue, Paloma and Wallaby, are not your conventional family.

The blue penguins at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony quarry site, along with resident marine biologist Philippa Agnew, are about to be part of a three-year research project which could help predict future population trends of the species.

New Zealand author Dame Fiona Kidman is to be this year's guest at the Janet Frame Eden Street Trust's annual workshop.

Indoor cow "farming" has come to Thames St.