The Glenomaru Reserve in the Catlins has been closed to recreational hunters for three months from July 1 while the Department of Conservation (Doc) works to bring the area's increasing feral pig population under control.
Services the Otago Rescue Helicopter provides to rural Otago were acknowledged yesterday in Lawrence, when a $35,000 cheque was given to the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust.
In the proud tradition of Tuapeka puntmen, Peter Dickson has been travelling across the same section of Clutha River twice each day for 16 years. Mr Dickson (75) is the 13th puntman in a line...
The mobile breast-screening unit left Balclutha this week after being there since since April 8. Rachel Taylor talks to a woman who owes her life to having had a mammogram - and keeping a promise to a friend who wasn't so lucky...
A 17-year-old Dunedin youth who allegedly published death threats against a 17-year-old Milton youth on Facebook was arrested and charged with threatening to kill or do grievous bodily harm, Milton police said yesterday.
A 4-year-old boy who sparked a search and rescue callout near Cannibal Bay yesterday morning was found safe at home, after walking a demanding 7km in an hour and 45 minutes.
Balclutha police seized hundreds of dollars worth of alcohol from 12 people in three cars, and issued fines to people found drinking inside the Balclutha liquor-ban area last weekend
The man jailed for murdering Owaka teenager Kylie Smith in 1991 has been denied parole because "he poses an undue risk of reoffending" and "cannot be safely released into the community", a Parole Board hearing has found.