A new camping ground on the site of the old Patearoa school, and Patearoa possibly hosting the 2020 Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust Cavalcade are two possibilities for the Maniototo district.

A learner driver clocked by police at 212kmh in an illegal street race will delay his home detention sentence to be with a family member - who has just been hit by a car, in a case of "painful irony".

The Commerce Commission has laid 10 charges against Vodafone New Zealand under the Fair Trading Act for billing customers after their contract had finished.

A few weeks back I was allocated time to observe Mars, using one of the telescopes at the University of Canterbury's Mt John Observatory.

A second poor annual harvest for manuka honey grower and exporter Comvita resulted in a 16% decline in after-tax profit to $8.2million.

The ''alarming'' quality of CCTV cameras scanning streets in Invercargill has prompted the Invercargill City Council to look at upgrading the equipment ''as soon as possible''.