Mike Sanford

Leading food company Alliance Group has won two major food awards for its premium TE MANA LAMB. TE MANA LAMB, developed as part of The Omega Lamb Project, won the New Zealand Food Safety Primary Sector Products and Frozen categories at the New Zealand Food Awards, which showcases the best of New Zea

Michael Vink came into this year’s Tour of Southland under the radar, but that has all changed now. The 26-year-old Cantabrian made the torturous 12km Coronet Peak climb look like an escalator at the end of a 138km stage from Mossburn to Queenstown today to take a 1min 20sec lead overall at the midw

Over 2000 city schoolchildren will be treated to a performance of The Messy Magic Adventure next month, thanks to some passionate arts advocates. Jade Gillies, of Gillies Creative, and Sarah McCarthy, of McCarthy Media and Communication, both of whom are involved in the Invercargill theatre communit

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,”