Christchurch designer Robyn Webb won The Ensign Award of Excellence at the Peugeot Hokonui Fashion Design Awards over the weekend.
Brad Cameron was a relieved man on Saturday as University A walked from the field with a 30-12 victory over Kaikorai in the play-off for 3rd and 4th at the University Oval.
There were three reported deaths on New Zealand roads during the weekend, including a man killed while trying to cross a motorway.
Mark Bosnich saved a penalty and kept a clean sheet in a spectacular comeback to football today, six years after the drug-fuelled collapse of his career in England's Premier League.
The New Zealand Warriors caused a National Rugby League (NRL) boilover today by downing defending champions Melbourne 8-6 in wintry conditions in Auckland.
TAPANUI'S Toy Library is facing a situation of use it or lose it.
‘‘Heading down the right track but still room for improvement'' reads the report card from Gore District councillor Doug Dixey about the Gore's District Youth Council's first three months of operation.
The Waikato Rugby Union (WRU) has signed talented schoolboy halfback Tawera Kerr-Barlow until the end of 2011.
RANFURLY'S Recreation Park committee is confident its second proposed site is ideal for a bike and skateboard park but the group needs more members for the proposal to go further.
A PARENTING group which is about to start up again in Wanaka aims to encourage adults caring for teenagers to open the lines of communication and work together.
Health experts say eating raw oysters carries a risk of mild food poisoning after 73 people fell ill with norovirus in Auckland.
Ukraine today blamed Soviet leaders for a famine that killed millions of people in 1932-33 and published documents it said "unequivocally" proved its case - part of its campaign to get the tragedy recognised as genocide.
If allegations about Winston Peters soliciting large donations, disguising them in trusts and not disclosing them are true, then it "smacks of hypocrisy", National leader John Key said today.
Manchester United has told Cristiano Ronaldo there will be no new contract with a pay rise to match any offer from Real Madrid, and that he must start displaying "commitment and loyalty." The winger has spent the summer making no secret of his desire to join the Spanish champion, but
A glance over his shoulder before entering the finishing chute was all it took for Matt Lambert (Ariki) to know he had secured victory in the Otago cross-country championships on Saturday.
A 25-year-old man was remanded in custody until Friday when he appeared in North Shore D
Gore High School pupil Dan Luoni (17) said he became involved in the youth council because he had always had an interest in politics in general and youth politics in particular, especially at a national level.
Bannockburn's Kyokushin Karate group may be fairly new and comparatively small but it boasts a bona fide black belt master at its helm.
Roxburgh Pioneer Generation Brass Band is national champion and its spoils of victory include winning the trophy the band donated the previous year.
Police are warning that a man who fled a community probation residence in Hamilton last week should not be approached.