Mike Sanford

Two mountain guides have died and climber Jo Morgan has survived after an avalanche hit near Aoraki / Mt Cook. Ms Morgan, a well-known adventurer, was with two professional mountain guides on Harper Saddle on Mt Hicks, near Aoraki / Mt Cook when they were caught in the avalanche. The bodies of the t

The Tour of Southland bared its teeth in an evil grimace on day two from Riverton to Te Anau today. New Zealand’s most prestigious bike race is renowned for its testing weather, and after a couple of years of relatively benign conditions, payback arrived in the form of wind, rain, hail and general m

Matt Zenovich has produced a powerful performance to confirm his hometown hero status on the first stage of the 2018 SBS Bank Tour of Southland. Zenovich (Placemakers) won a three man sprint up the main street of Lumsden to claim victory in the 170km stage from Invercargill, and ride his way into th

he Police National Dive Squad has this morning recovered two bodies off the southern coast of Otago. While formal identification has not yet taken place, it is believed that the bodies are those of the two Balclutha men reported overdue from their diving trip on Saturday night. A search was under wa

Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker has today launched a petition to save the Gore and Winton Racecourses. “Recently the Government released the Messara report which recommends the closure of both the Gore and Winton Racecourses, with the races being transferred to Invercargill, which makes no sense,”

PowerNet have laid down the early challenge as the SBS Bank Tour of Southland got underway in Invercargill this afternoon. The opening team time trial prologue around Queens Park was a chance for teams to stretch their legs and test their combinations ahead of a hard week of racing on the Southland

A search is under way in Southern Otago after two men were reported overdue from a diving trip last night. The men were diving recreationally for paua and entered the water in Purakaunui Bay. The men, aged 23 and 51, are from Balclutha. Police were notified at 7.30pm last night that the men had not

On Monday (15th October) Greg Kelly (known as Kell) arrived in Invercargill part of his fundraising tour riding the length and breadth of New Zealand on a Harley-Davidson over 5 weeks, raising awareness for Younger Onset (Frontotemporal) Dementia, of which he was diagnosed with in 2016, aged 59. Las