From about 15 cassette tapes in 1997, to more than 170 DVDs, memory sticks, YouTube clips, podcasts, emailed MP3s and myspace website links in 2009 - the application process for bands vying for a chance to play at Wanaka's Rippon Festival has evolved significantly.
New Zealand strong-wool growers have a story to tell the world and it's one yarn the chairwoman of new wool company, Wool Partners International, is absolutely determined it will hear.
Rangiora-based mohair exporter Chris Sundstrum says while mohair prices seem to be resisting the economic downturn, the same can not be said about other goat fibre.
Goat farmers have won the chance to say yes or no to the proposal that Meat & Wool New Zealand continues to collect levies and fund programmes to further the interests of their industry.
Glenorchy School senior class teacher Helen Reed last week took 21 year 5 to 8 pupils to the Glenorchy Museum to research the past of the township and its families.
Australia needs five more wickets to level the Ashes series after Mitchell Johnson and Ben Hilfenhaus went through England's top order to build on Marcus North's century by stumpson the second day of the fourth test.
A photo record of the Taihua Star, as tugs went out to meet it in the Upper Harbour on August 7.
Hawea Flat School is the latest school to set about developing and implementing a travel plan as part of the Queenstown Lakes District Council goal to put school travel plans in place district-wide in the next three years.
Timaru's Opihi Services Academy is backing itself to grab a slice of the government's $150 million package to address rising youth unemployment.
Running with maturity and to a preconceived plan, Otago's Anna-Lisa Uttley won the 16-and-under title at the national cross-country championships in Christchurch on Saturday.
There will be a strong Otago presence at the national cross-country championships at the Halswell Quarry course in Christchurch today.
The ongoing redevelopment of facilities, introduction of new exhibits and experiences, and a personal relationship with its visitors are just some of the factors which make the Otago Museum one of the best in the world, Otago Museum director Shimrath Paul says.
Cinderella only needed a pumpkin and a couple of mice to go from ashes to acclaim. But then she had a fairy godmother. Laura Hewson looks at how much it really costs to go to the ball.
One of the heli-skiiers who survived an avalanche on a South Island mountain range thought he was going to die under the weight of the snow that had buried him.
Roslyn Presbyterian Church - snapped 6.50am on Tuesday, July 28, from my back yard. G. Bernhardt By Ria Bernhardt from DUNEDIN 9011, NZ.
The first photo was taken from the Main South road below the Southern Cemetery this morning. The second photo was taken within 2 minutes of the sunrise photo, also from the Main South Rd. By Lyn...
Things are all go at Lot 22 in Wanaka's West Meadows subdivision, as the Wanakafest house begins to take shape.
Wanaka's cycling fraternity is in luck now former Commonwealth and Olympic Games cyclist Jon Andrews has moved to town.
Dunedin's participation in a domestic tourism marketing campaign is ‘‘long overdue'', says Taieri Gorge Railway chief executive Murray Bond.
A woman was rescued freezing and exhausted from the sea off Mahia in the northern Hawke's Bay yesterday, worn out by the playful antics of resident dolphin Moko.
