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The Department of Conservation (Doc) is confident possums and other pests will not be able to cross a Fiordland river using one of its bridges.
The annual Bridge to Bar run, in which entrants run 5km from the Tutoko Bridge to the Milford Pub on St Patrick's Day, raised more than $2500 for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Forty rare pateke, or brown teal, were quick to make themselves at home in their new surroundings in a remote area of Fiordland on Wednesday.
Forty brown teal (pateke) will be released into Fiordland this month following the release of 20 of the birds last year.
Hokitika's Westland High School has refused to allow an anti-cancer vaccine to be administered on its premises, a move health bosses say is worrying.
Wanaka reporter Marjorie Cook was angling for a different story, but the lure of catching tuna off the West Coast proved too much of an attraction.
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