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Every school day for the past 24 years, the Tarras School bell has chimed like clockwork to mark the start and end of lessons - courtesy of principal Noelene Pullar.

Competing in the Coast to Coast in February will serve as a honeymoon for Dunedin nurses Signe Stanbridge and Michael O'Brien.

There were some who would say it was not profitable to winter deer in the high country, but Ross Stevens, of Whiterock Station, disagrees.

High country farmers traditionally face two significant challenges - the harsh conditions in which they must wrest a living from the land and how to make it pay for their children and their children's children.

An unforeseen lack of demand for red weaners last autumn means a high country farming couple will weigh up their options for future deer management policies.

Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) chairman Andy Macfarlane remains enthusiastic about progress toward getting Government Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) funding despite jumping the gun announcing its approval.

Karen Neilsen, of Wanaka, is in a flap over traffic-related duck deaths on Wanaka's lakefront and is calling for ''ducks crossing'' signs reminding motorists to slow down.

An apathy towards serious drug-dealing within the Wanaka community is concerning and needs to change, a police officer involved in last week's drug bust in the town says.

Wanaka multisport and adventure racing athlete Dougal Allan is getting ready to take the plunge in more ways than one this summer.

Members of New Zealand's largely Wanaka-based winter biathlon team have not let a lack of snow slow them down during the northern hemisphere leg of the first New Zealand-Sweden biathlon exchange.

Oamaru residents have alleged cheating by their online opponents from Wanaka in a social media competition to get the southern hemisphere's fastest internet.

Speed was not a factor in either of the fatal motorcycle crashes near Haast this week, police say.

Wade Briscoe narrowly escaped through the window of a sinking vehicle but his long-time friend Ian Horrax did not.

The New Zealand Transport Agency's mounting bill to manage the Diana Falls slip in the Haast Pass has hit the $2 million mark after just over eight weeks.

Police investigating an unexplained death near Lake Hawea last week are considering the possibility the mystery object that struck and killed motorist Rutger Hale was moved from the accident scene.

A specialist Christchurch-based police search team has been brought in to help in the hunt for a mystery object which killed 22-year-old Rutger Hale, as he drove near Lake Hawea last Thursday.

Canadian Michael Hayes leaves New Zealand today knowing he achieved what he came to do by visiting the place where his son Connor was killed by a landslip last month.