Katherine Prumm is a tough woman but even she was scared when she couldn't move her legs after a horror motorbike crash. Otago Daily Times motorsport writer Catherine Pattison catches up with the motocross star.
In a shortened contest punctuated by uniquely Australian dramas, Allan Dippie's team bettered its qualifying position by 21 places to finish 13th overall in the Bathurst 12-hour race at the weekend.
Allan Dippie is fast acquiring enviable entries in his race logbook of most desirable tracks in the world.
On the long drive home from Woodville, three Otago riders would have been reflecting proudly on their outstanding performances over the weekend.
A band of three Dunedin brothers will commemorate their father's life by racing together for the first time in the Bob Scott Memorial Hillclimb at Kaitangata today.
The occupants of a car parked near a suspicious blaze at the former Waipukurau Hospital in central Hawke's Bay may have information vital to arson inquiries, police say.
Foul weather took its toll on the Otago drivers competing at Timaru International Raceway at the weekend.
Otago drivers were dropping like flies at Teretonga Park yesterday, with two out of three going off the track in nearly the same spot.
Preventive detention will be retained as a sentencing option for judges under the Government's proposed "three strikes" legislation, Police Minister Judith Collins said today.
When the main sponsor for his Relentless Suzuki team in England pulled the pin a month ago, Queenstown rider Scott Columb found himself struggling for motivation.
Businessman Grant Aitken, of Queenstown, is tantalisingly close to marking a tick on his wish list next to "establish a garage club in my home town".
After a recent spate of second placings, Queenstown's Scott Columb is "back on top" and leading the 250cc class of the New Zealand Supercross Championships.
Distance: 160km. Estimated time without stops: Approx. 2 hours.
Although Scott Columb could not claim a win from the first round of the New Zealand Supercross Championships in Timaru yesterday, he did manage a prize.
Nestled among the kanuka and rock-strewn hills, bearing old-time names like Welshtown and Logantown, are fallen-down pieces of history. Catherine Pattison took a summer drive from Lake Hawea to the Bendigo gold fields.
Down a dusty gravel road near Dublin Bay, Auckland-based cook and food writer Annabel Langbein is plucking elderflowers from a bush.
It could be a modern day version of one of New Zealand's most popular films, Goodbye Pork Pie.
"Disappointed" was Queenstown racer Scott Columb's assessment of his state of mind after finishing second in the New Zealand motocross championships' MX2 class.
"The real reason I do it now is for her," Whitewater NZ conservation spokesman Glenn Murdoch says, nodding down at his 3-month-old daughter Maia.
Wanaka businessman Peter Marshall's category prize in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards was "great for the business".
