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- Former principal wins award
The winner of the 2025 Gore Woman of the Year Awards says making sure everybody has an equal right to education is her passion.
- Wind ‘hard on business’
Stronger than normal winds are hampering contractors applying spray and fertiliser in the South.
- Schools commit to Treaty
Several Gore schools are following a nationwide trend of reaffirming their obligation to ‘‘give effect’’ to the Treaty of Waitangi, despite a government rule change.
- Exploring Central with Fats the cat
JoSimpson enjoys a feline adventure into Central Otago’s gold rush past.
- School intervention over
St Peter’s College is looking towards a brighter future, after the Ministry of Education officially ended the school’s statutory invervention last week.
- Books, tomes, volumes all for sale to help fight cancer
The Gore Pakeke Lions Club is ready for their flagship fundraising programme, with an estimated 20,000 books ready to raise funds for a good cause.
- Generous support helps event flourish
The Inspiring Wahine Rural Conference is made possible by a passionate team of wāhine from across Southland and Central Otago:
- Ex-resident threatened camp staff with knife
A week after Gore Motor Camp was shut down by the council, a former resident has been sentenced for threatening camp staff with a knife and breaking a window.
- Manslaughter accused’s name still suppressed
NAME suppression continues for a Southland man charged with manslaughter, despite his identity being known by many in his small rural community.
- Schoollunch comments disappoint Allergy NZ
A Gore community board member has doubled down on comments calling food allergies ‘‘natural selection’’, after the introduction of more allergy-friendly school lunches.
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Ewan McDonald runs through every reason why the Chathams should be on your 2022 travel hit list....
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Ewan McDonald runs through every reason why the Chathams should be on your 2022 travel hit list....
- Passion for plants sees business celebrate 90 years
A West Otago business celebrates its 90th anniversary this month, an extraordinary achievement particularly given it has remained in the same family. Business editor Sally Rae meets the Hughes family from Blue Mountain Nurseries....
- From sea to sky, birdie to eagle
A British Columbia golf trip promises stunning scenery and local wildlife, writes AndrewMarshall. This is the scene. It’s early September, and after loading our golf clubs and luggage into the back of our hire car at Vancouver International Airport, we set the sat nav to Whistler, a 135km drive,...
- Timeless beauty of the Chathams
THE Chatham archipelago, about 800km east of the South Island, is 45 minutes ahead of New Zealand. Actually they are on the other side of the international date line, but that’s been shifted to bulge around the islands so they share the same date as the rest of the country instead of being the day...
- Chasing birds in Colombia
Dunedin marine scientist Abby Smith discovers more about Columbia and its birds than she ever thought possible....