Otago Daily Times:

The prospect of taking part in "slider" sessions on a purpose-built pond and the chance to perform tricks on Lake Dunstan have attracted top wakeboarders from around the country and overseas to Cromwell.

Dairy farms proposed for the Omarama and Ohau areas were "a world-class proposal" which was a victim of misinformation, the three companies behind the development said yesterday.

"Vulnerable" young Southlanders risk missing out on health care because the Southland District Health Board will not fund Invercargill's youth health clinic, Southland Youth One Stop Shop manager Jocelyn Johnstone says.

Fire crews were called to another suspicious fire in a Wenita Forest block near Waihola yesterday.

Industrial action by medical radiation technologists across the country looks set to continue and will include Easter in some places, including Southland.