Shawn McAvinue

Texan cowboy Mark Northcott (39) could be mistaken as a muse for a country music song.

Organisers are calling Ride the Rhythm's second year a success despite ticket sales being almost half those of last year's event.

The man seriously injured when a gas cylinder exploded in Invercargill on Monday is in an induced coma.

A Dunedin state housing tenant and the SPCA want Housing New Zealand to reconsider its dog policy.

A suspicious fire last night damaged Ranfurly's Centennial Milk Bar, which now houses an Art Deco museum and other businesses.

Dunedin band the Chills are understood to be playing at this year's Glastonbury festival.

Otago SPCA is set to extend its weekend opening hours as its kitten population ''explodes''.

The superyacht Arctic P is docked in Dunedin - but whether its billionaire owner Australian businessman James Packer (46) is on board remains a mystery.

Dunedin City Council has taken more action on abandoned vehicle complaints and so reduced the number of vehicles it has to dispose of.

David killed Goliath, and the Oil Free Otago flotilla set to sail tonight can stop the Anadarko drill ship, the Rev Peter Matheson says.

Vintage cars and classic hits was the theme at the Music in the Park event at Aramoana Domain yesterday.

An extended article on the strange marine mammals uncovered by a University of Otago research student in San Francisco has appeared in the latest edition of a French scientific journal.

Bouncy castle injuries have inflated in the South and the age of those getting hurt is rising.

Earth penetrating radar could be used to locate unmarked graves in Middlemarch Cemetery.

The candles are set to be blown out as funding is approved for solar lighting at the Leaning Lodge hut.

A Dunedin lamppost at the ''end of its useful life'' is replaced in Taieri Rd, Dunedin.

Metiria Turei, according to her political adversaries, lives in a castle. She comes to Parliament dressed in $2000 Adrienne Winkelmann designer jackets. And then she wants to talk about poverty.