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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....