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The annual Golf Otago women's champion of champions tournament was held in Wanaka on Thursday. The event features the silver and bronze champions from clubs throughout Otago.

While the format has been changed and the intensity of events scaled back, the distinction that comes with winning the "Speight's Perfect Woman" title has just as much pulling power as previous years, as entries pile up for the ninth annual charity competition next weekend.

The Otago Regional Council (ORC) will meet Glenorchy and Cardrona Valley residents soon to discuss concerns of increasing risk of exposure to surrounding natural hazards.

"Significant and powerful", but also "scary" was how Waitaki deputy mayor Jim Hopkins described growth projections for the Waitaki district over the next 25 years when they were presented to the Waitaki District Council yesterday.

Cardrona Valley ski pioneers John and Mary Lee have sold their cross country ski facility Snow Farm, on the Pisa Range, to the Pisa Alpine Charitable Trust.

Hundreds have gathered in Timaru today to celebrate the life of controversial financier Allan Hubbard.

A woman who set her dog on two people in drunken, racially motivated attacks says she was "trying to make a statement'' on immigrants who she claimed were taking the jobs of New Zealanders.

As former Upper Clutha Rugby Club members from the early 1970s celebrated the 40th anniversary of their historic White Horse Cup win yesterday, their wives celebrated an entirely different sort of triumph.

Mike Wakelin soaked up the rural charms and aromas of rural West Taieri to win the hill-free half-marathon near Outram yesterday.

An Upper Clutha heritage calendar, which aims to make precious historical images of the district accessible to everyone instead of shutting them away in museums and private collections, will have its official launch this weekend.

The popularity of Wanaka's long-running Rippon Festival is far from waning and music fans have already snapped up 40% of available tickets in the first week of sales, four months before the event.

Parkins Bay Preserve Ltd has provided rebuttal evidence in the Environment Court appeal against its proposed golf resort development on the southwestern shoreline of Lake Wanaka, before the final evidence submission cut-off date last Friday.

The Dunedin City Council (DCC) is unlikely to employ any stop-gap measures to combat erosion at Ocean Beach before its draft management plan for the area goes to consultation

A new approach to water quality - remedial rather than preventive - is essential, writes John Highton, of Dunedin.

A favour from his father's friend launched Wanaka man Ian McGregor's banking career when he was just 15 years old, but his many successes in the ensuing 45 years with the National Bank have been all on his own merits.

Profits from a series of limited-edition rings produced as a tribute to Wanaka pilot Graham Stott (31), who was killed in a helicopter crash in Mt Aspiring National Park earlier this year, will benefit a volunteer group which helped search for the downed aircraft following the accident.