Hamish MacLean

Gumboots are more part of Nigel Stirling's wardrobe than suits these days but the former journalist has not gone "cold turkey'' on his news background, despite the demands of farming life. He tells Hamish McLean about his return to the family farm in South Otago.

It is not the move from Otago to the Middle East that excites Dr Wayne Cunningham, it is the move to full-time academia he calls a ''huge opportunity''.

Three empty Housing New Zealand homes in Milton could be sold to first-time buyers under a scheme to get more people into home ownership.

Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says the public consultation process for the Clutha District Council's long-term plan early next year could turn ugly.

Rural fire crews spent Wednesday fighting a 1ha blaze in a Blue Mountains forestry block.

The Catlins coast is flush with fish.

Volunteer lifeguards from the Kaka Point Surf Life Saving Club were watching swimmers at Kaka Point.

A man was flown to Dunedin Hospital with serious injuries after being thrown from a vehicle in South Otago yesterday.

Clutha farmer Dave Shaw has seen an opportunity to share his passion for hunting with the next generation of hunters and cull his farm's fallow deer population. Hamish MacLean found out what he had to teach young hunters.