Julie Asher

They came, they saw and they staggered away laden with books, jigsaw puzzles and DVDs.

There was not a child with a screen to be found at Naseby recreation ground yesterday as hundreds of holiday makers and residents flooded the green space for the annual Naseby family fun day.

The government and the name of water reforms may have changed last year but the expensive changes have not - and councils will still have to figure out how to pay for them.

Nearly 200 submissions have been made by people wanting to weigh in on a giant solar farm in the Maniototo.

It is big, expensive and could save a life.

A wine bar inside a clothing and homewares store is an unusual concept but Lohi owners Tania Murray Haigh and Russ Haigh are not ones for playing safe.

The days of carloads of people drinking their way to Alexandra for the Blossom Festival, seen as a rite of passage for some, appear to be numbered.

Changing attitudes and public discussion have transformed the way most New Zealanders look at mental health, and frontline workers hope the same will happen with violence and harm at home.

An out-of-the-blue phone call brought the newest, and youngest, member of the Teviot Valley Community Board to the table.

Nearly 150 people crowded into the rugby clubrooms in Ranfurly on Monday night to discuss a proposal from Helios to build a 660ha solar farm between the town and Naseby.

Central Otago is full of hidden places to explore but permission and suitable vehicles can be a problem.

When the call went out for a new sorting space for over 30,000 books that make up one of Alexandra’s best-known holiday attractions former teacher, and Rotary member, Mark Willyams discovered a...

Nothing conjures up summer quite like the smell of fresh-cut grass ... but in Roxburgh grass mowing is causing a stink.