The committee that runs the Roxburgh cinema is determined last week's fire will not scupper its status as the world’s second-longest continuously operating cinema.
Fire put a sudden stop this week to what was potentially the longest continuous run of any cinema in the world. Debbie Porteous gives a potted history of a picture palace.
A destination management company that works with cruise lines has apologised over the leaking of an internal email that criticised the company that books train tickets for the Taieri Gorge train trip.
A hidden camera in an Oamaru rest-home recorded multiple caregivers acting abusively towards a man in his 80s with dementia while he was attempting to use the toilet.
A hidden camera in an Oamaru rest-home recorded multiple caregivers acting abusively towards a man in his 80s with dementia while he was attempting to use the toilet.
John, from Maggie’s cafe in lower Stuart St, was the poster dog of the Dunedin City Council’s dog registration campaign and the dunedinnz.com insiders campaign.
As the news that H&J Smith Department Store, beloved by generations of Southlanders, was set to close reverberated around the nation this week, Debbie Porteous was among the many who surely felt a little bit like crying.
Budgets for projects in the Queenstown-Lakes district over the next 10 years have been rejigged to find another $37million for the new arterial road through the town’s centre.
A central government probe into the Invercargill City Council appears to trace back to a chance phone call to the city’s chief executive eight months before the matter became public.