Martin Pleass flew from North Wales to Gore to put Ashby School of Music students through their paces for the Rockschool examinations this week.
The St James Theatre's new fly tower will be put through its paces this weekend with the opening of the Gore Operatic Society's show Jesus Christ Superstar.
Police and Mataura Primary School are investigating implementing safety options at a pedestrian crossing on State Highway 1 in the town after a 10-year-old girl was hit by a car on Wednesday morning.
Resthaven Village residents will be snug in their new quilts of many colours.
The judges' choice of the overall winner of the Hokonui Fashion Design Awards may be a bit controversial, head judge and World fashion label co-owner Francis Hooper says.
Pieces of a man's cardigan which was originally designed for a lawn bowler gave Dunedin designer Laura Marshall a winning edge in Gore on Saturday night.
A retired farming couple who live in Gore have proved they can grow almost anything.
Phillip Tytler has swapped 40degC heat for 4degC and sun for frost and snow, returning home to Gore after spending three years in the United Arab Emirates.
The excitement is building in anticipation of this year's Hokonui Fashion Design Awards, with the cataloguing of garments in readiness for this weekend's event.
The building of social skills in young people is an essential ingredient in helping children and teens reach their full potential, Gore and District Youth Worker Trust youth worker Manaaki Green says.
Major renovations of the former Mataura Town Hall are planned to turn it in to a fully equipped youth centre, complete with a movie theatre.
Two Gore men have graduated from their initial navy training.
Steeghs Partnership has been successful in gaining a resource consent to take up to 3600 cubic metres of water per day from the bores that feed the Gore water supply.
Creativity came to the fore when East Gore School pupils created myriad outfits and crafts from recyclables to be entered in the Southland Museum and Art Gallery Southland Primary Schools Art Exhibition.
If you have ever wanted to run away and join the circus, former Gore man Corey Moir is the man to talk to.
A proposal endorsed last week by Gore District Council to build a waterbased hockey turf in Gore, which has left a question mark over the future of the hockey turf in Mataura, has angered Mataura resident Meg Appleby.
Caltex petrol stations throughout the country are having underground storage tanks replaced as part of a nationwide replacement programme and Gore is no exception.
Steph Redhead, of Gore, has gone from singing in church to playing Mary in the Gore Operatic Society's production of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Some of the South's best natural ingredients, along with steak from Highland cattle, have been combined to make some hearty pies produced at a Gore bakery.
Former Tapanui man Clifton van der Oest was recently admitted to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Faculty of Public Health Medicine at a ceremony held in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.