Southland

Stage two of the Around the Mountains Cycle Trail got a $1 million boost yesterday after it was announced it is getting a 2014 Lottery Significant Projects Fund grant.

A logo launched with some fanfare by the Gore District Council earlier this month has not found favour with everyone.

Police have accepted the findings of a report into the serious injury of a Dunedin truck driver that concluded they failed to record key information after receiving calls about wandering stock.

When teenagers Meryle Ball and Glad Toole met at Invercargill's Kingsland Biscuit Factory in 1940, they instantly became the best of friends.