Wild winds and torrential southern rain could not deter more than 4000 oyster lovers from converging on the Bluff Oyster and Food Festival on Saturday.
A community-led health advocacy group is urging Upper Clutha residents to lobby Te Whatu Ora in support of an interim after-hours healthcare service for the region.
To help promote abuse prevention, police are still maintaining workshops launched by Lesley Elliott in memory of her daughter who was murdered after a relationship went horribly wrong.
Parts of Otago are "simply growing too fast" to wait any longer for adequate healthcare services, two mayors from the region told the government this week.
A colourful and courageous Queenstown chef who died this month, aged 45, was given only months to live when he was originally treated for cancer eight years ago.
The Milford Opportunities project is in the home straight and though there is some crunch work to be done, there is confidence the project will be ready to hand on to the government.
Whenever space in a landscape is opened up by a disturbance, such as a forest fire, a hurricane, or the arrival of lumberjacks, nature begins a process called succession.
Former Prime Minister Sir John Key paid a massively-discounted price for a section at Queenstown’s Gibbston Valley Resort - in return for promoting the 400-hectare development.
The founder of a Wānaka-based outdoor gear brand with international reach says it is "just the right time" to grow by offering keen investors a chance to get on board.