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A fight turned deadly in Searle Lane, Queenstown, when a man fell to the ground cracking his head at approximately 11.45pm.

Flagstaff Alpacas owner and breeder Andy Nailard, of Dunedin, still believes it is possible he will eventually see farmed alpacas roaming across the hills of Otago and Southland as part of a viable fibre industry.

After briefly losing momentum, the North East Valley Community Development Project is back on track and quickly making progress, project workers say.

The Mossburn Volunteer Fire Brigade's six female firefighters feature in the 2010 New Zealand Female Firefighter calendar, which was launched recently.

It is claimed that the son's wife or the daughter's boyfriend could potentially be one of the biggest threats to the family farm.

New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab is counting down to the historic launch of a space-bound rocket from Great Mercury Island.

Sotaro Ueda (11) and his younger brother Kohsuke (9) have done it again.

Photo by Caitlin Reilly 6yrs (St Brigid's School). Caitlin saw the fire from out the car window but after a 5min video narrative of what was happening showing the flames, firemen arriving, the only photos she managed were of smoke.

Children happily bounced on a gigantic castle, rode in Flick the little fire truck, had their nails and faces painted, their hair braided and watched Magician Jonathan Usher.

While boogieboarding yesterday at Kaka Point we were surprised and thrilled to see the fin of an Orca Whale.

This Leopard Seal hauled itself out of the water at Company bay and was happily enjoying the sun, rolling and scratching, and chewing rocks this week.

The North End Rowing clubs open eight dominated the 17km long course from Cromwell to Clyde in a flying time of 59min 57sec, apparently only the second time the 1hr mark has been broken.

It was nail-biting stuff at Oamaru's Whitestone Contracting Stadium on Saturday as North Otago held off an explosive late charge from King Country to earn a place in the Lochore Cup final.