Guy Williams

After 20 years of chasing winters around the world, Mount Dobson's new ski school director Adam Cuff has returned to where it all began.

As the dust settles on the not guilty verdict for David Bain, a Timaru mathematician and computing expert is now free to talk about his near seven-year involvement with the case.

A Kimbell couple who won a bright yellow, fully refurbished 1964 Volkswagen Beetle in a raffle are attributing their success to women's intuition.

A young Timaru marksman has been named New Zealand's most outstanding young deerstalker of the year.

Gottlieb Braun-Elwert would not make a great hunter.

The Timaru Festival of Roses Trust has won the Supreme Award at the TrustPower Timaru District Community Awards.

Arowhenua is to benefit from a $65,000 upgrade of its water supply.

The life and times of Al ‘‘Scarface'' Capone are coming to Timaru in the form of a Timaru Boys' High/Girls' High co-production of the musical Big Al.

Funding has been secured for a $130,000 World War 1 memorial for Caroline Bay.

Poet and retired North Canterbury farmer Colin Patterson still finds it hard to believe it when he is on stage in front of hundreds of people, telling yarns that he dreamed up on a tractor 40 years ago.

AS Timaru experiences its worst winter for air pollution since 2001, Environment Canterbury (Ecan) has started its Clean Heat Project in the city.

A TIMARU Boys' High School pupil has returned from a cricket scholarship to one of England's oldest public schools with wonderful memories, new friends, and plenty of runs and wickets on the board.

A winter holiday at his grandparents' house near Naseby, Central Otago, has put Timaru's Tyler Day on the fast track in a new sport - luge.

There is life after death for old rugby players, Temuka's Lindsay Parke says.

A combination of high power bills, rising food prices and the school holidays is causing a run on food banks in South Canterbury.

SOUTH Canterbury Community College's outgoing manager Nancy Lawrence says she has enjoyed the opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.

IN a world of soaring fuel prices, crowded buses and car pooling, this contraption may be the answer to your prayers - a skateboard powered by a weed-eater motor.

TIMARU Boys' High School rock band No Indication has won the Timaru regional final of Smokefreerockquest for the third year in a row and its members are hoping their experience will help them to succeed on the national stage.

More than 70 hardy types took the plunge at the annual midwinter swim on Sunday.