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    Workshop to teach AI tool use

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    Odyssey recounted

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    A Timaru-born author has delved into his vivid diary entries to create an engaging and fascinating travel memoir of adventuring through Africa in a giant Bedford truck in the 1970s.

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    Three injured in crash near Omarama

    Three people are injured following a two-vehicle crash near Omarama this afternoon. 

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    Massive solar farms planned near Lake Benmore

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    Massive solar farms planned near Lake Benmore

    Two massive solar farm projects bidding for government fast-track approval have been told to find out what their combined environmental impacts might be.

    $2.8m allocated for intersection

    At the government announcement of $2.8million in taxpayer funding to fix traffic congestion on...

    $2.8m allocated for intersection

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    Landers start to click in second half

    Highlanders halfback Nic Shearer moves the ball during his team’s preseason game against the...

    Landers start to click in second half

    You can never read too much into preseason.

    Minister seeks to fill local vacancies

    Minister of Social Development and Employment Louise Upston.

    Minister seeks to fill local vacancies

    Minister of Social Development and Employment Louise Upston has started the new year meeting Timaru employers and encouraging them to hire jobseekers in the first instance.

    New depot on ‘jewel’ of Great Rides

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    New depot on ‘jewel’ of Great Rides

    A purpose-built cycling depot has been officially opened in Twizel.

    Team’s dominant form continues

    Putting on a strong showing at the Southern Quadrangular in Dunedin were South Canterbury...

    Team’s dominant form continues

    The South Canterbury development team were once again in dominating form, winning the Zone 6 Development Speight’s Southern Quadrangular in Dunedin over the weekend.

    Ceremony for bike park completion

    Timaru Suburban Lions members and project contributors celebrate officially handing the park over...

    Ceremony for bike park completion

    A decade and $500,000 later the Timaru Suburban Lions Bike Skills Park project has hit its final milestone.

    Mullet to be cut for Street Cats

    Harlan Westaway is chopping off his mullet in an effort to raise money for Street Cats South...

    Mullet to be cut for Street Cats

    A 12-year-old Timaru pupil is preparing to say goodbye to his mighty mullet after putting it on the chopping block for a good cause.

    Post shops set to close

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    Post shops set to close

    Two of South Canterbury’s community post shops are set to close.

    Soft growth aplenty this summer

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    Soft growth aplenty this summer

    We’re past the halfway point in the growing season now. The peak of summer has been a non-event temperature wise, more like mid spring, except warmer overnight.

    Celebrating 125 years

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    Celebrating 125 years

    South Canterbury Rugby’s men and women in the middle are preparing to whistle up their 125th jubilee.

    Local indoor bowler to play for NZ

    Jenelle Lockyer has been named in the New Zealand Indoor Bowls team to take on Australia in May....

    Local indoor bowler to play for NZ

    For the first time in 35 years, a South Canterbury indoor bowler has been selected to represent New Zealand.

    Sharpening skills as finals loom

    NZ Young Farmers Aorangi convener Penny Stilgoe is warning this year’s contestants to expect the...

    Sharpening skills as finals loom

    Young farmers from around Aorangi are being warned to expect the unexpected ahead of this year’s first FMG Young Farmer of the Year regional finals.

    Funding hunt begins

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    Funding hunt begins

    For a local food rescue organisation, it is a new year and a new location.

    New car bought

    Community vehicle trust drivers and members celebrate the launch of the new vehicle. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    New car bought

    The Temuka Community Vehicle Trust has purchased a new vehicle for $49,000.

    Portaloo truck crashes, spills waste on SH1

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    Stink news: Portaloo truck crashes, spills waste on highway

    A truck carrying portaloos crashed on a South Canterbury highway this afternoon, spilling hundreds of litres of human waste on to the road.
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