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The equity involved in swapping a strip of private land in Hawea Flat for nine times as much public reserve was considered at a hearing yesterday.

''He's taller, he's cooler, he'll work harder ... and he was in a play group with my second-eldest son.''

A new way of putting art in public places has been proposed.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire rates the Highlanders after their narrow win against the Lions in Dunedin.

Dozens of fake driving licences and a false passport were allegedly used by a drug ring to hide luxury cars, millions of dollars in cash, firearms and property.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire looks at what we learned from the Highlanders' match against the Stormers at the weekend.

Ninety-year-old ''inspiration'' Scott Gray won many fans among his Wanaka Autumn Art School classmates this week.

A New Brighton Olympic team laden with past Otago talent proved it is more than worthy as the national road relay champion with a resounding victory in the Lovelock Relay at the University Oval on Saturday.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire rates the Highlanders after their narrow 29-28 loss to the  Stormers in Cape Town this morning.

As corporate and community interests collide over a parcel of land on the banks of the Clutha River near Wanaka, the future of a proposed public riverside park - featuring conservation, recreational, historic and educational elements - is unclear. Lucy Ibbotson talks to those behind the park proposal and the long-term landowner.

It will require a herculean effort to stop National Road Relay champion New Brighton Olympic from winning the senior men's title of the Lovelock Relays at the University Oval today.

Luggate residents have again come out fighting against a proposed solar sludge-drying facility near their town, this time through the formal consultation process.

Becoming a New Zealand citizen was the achievement of a ''goal'', Wesley Bachur said.

Losing Wanaka's distinctive ''log cabin'' building from the lakefront would spell disaster for Simon Stewart's business, he told the Wanaka Community Board yesterday.

From a few beers to an all-expenses-paid trip of a lifetime, the golf prizes won by Wanaka man Michael Bayliss just got a whole lot better.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire looks at five reasons why the Highlanders upset the high-flying Sharks in Durban.