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- Tussock Country festivaltaking overtown
FROM a cheese roll making workshop, street busking and a mai mai farm tour to concerts and a talent quest, Gore will be a hive of activity over the next nine days.
- Partial road closure to allow for surfacing of intersection
A PARTIAL road closure in Mosgiel will allow for the surfacing of the intersection outside the new pool, Te Puna o Whakaehu, before it opens.
- Care of kiwi under investigation
NAPIER: The Department of Conservation (Doc) and a private sanctuary are under investigation over whether kiwi have been mistreated in New Zealand.
- Writer heading to Dunedin looking for inspiration
AN award-winning Australian writer and essayist is headed to Dunedin in search of inspiration for her next writing project.
- Mothers’viewofbreastmilkuptaketobestudied
AMONG the exhausting list of things mothers of newborns have to worry about is whether their baby is getting enough breast milk.
- Traffic may be using new bridge in July
CARS may be able to drive across the new Beaumont Bridge in late July as construction continues.
- Councilneedstorevisithowmuchto borrow
WITH no new money from the government coffers in the Budget to subsidise flood schemes, the West Coast Regional Council is having to revisit how it funds projects.
- Man (75) found guilty of groping girls
A JURY has found a 75-year-old man guilty of groping two girls.
- Cross-countryskifieldurgentlyseekscouncilfunding
SNOW Farm, New Zealand’s only cross-country skifield, is urgently seeking $450,000 from the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) to help save it from an ‘‘existential crisis’’.
- Would-be rapist allowed to use dating apps
A DUNEDIN sex offender, who tried to rape a woman he had just met, will be allowed to use dating apps while on home detention.
Featured documents
- Autonomous vehicles may not be so autonomous
So-called autonomous vehicles may need a helping human hand after all, write Nick Carey and Paul Lienert from Milton Keynes, in England....
- Escape options limited for the stateless
Tens of thousands of stateless people live in Ukraine, but without identification documents or citizenship it is hard to cross the border — and they may never be able to return home. EmmaBatha , of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports....
- Abundant reasons why thermobaric weapons should be banned
What are thermobaric weapons? And why should they be banned? MarianneHanson , Associate Professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, offers some answers....
- Teen driver in deadly crash convicted
THE 17-year-old driver who killed two mothers in a crash in Waihola had not fallen asleep, as he initially ‘‘wrongly’’ claimed....
- Gore man charged with rape, sexual violation
A GORE man accused of rape and sexual violation told police he would be surprised if a sample taken from the complainant contained his DNA....
- Murdertrialhearsofrepeatedpolicesearches
POLICE conducted three searches of the addresses of both murder-accused Sandy Graham (32) and the man charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder, Graham Hyde (24), during their almost four-month investigation into the killing of Dale Watene....
- Brief strangulation ‘incredibly unlikely’
IT was incredibly unlikely the strangulation that caused Shirley Reedy’s death was just a matter of seconds....
- Bail denied in lookout murder case
A MAN accused of a murder at a Dunedin lookout has been declined bail....
- Guilty of kidnapping, robbery
A MAN was yesterday found guilty of kidnapping and aggravated robbery of a builder in Invercargill....
- Sportscommentariesbigpartofavariedlife
IAIN GALLAWAY was perhaps the only Otago cricketer to receive a standing ovation for a golden duck....