Mike Sanford

Name release – Lake Te Anau death ” Southern Police can now release the name of the man who died after falling off a boat yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called at 1:30pm on Saturday 4 November, 2017, to the incident on Lake Te Anau. He was 68-year-old Howard Robert Phillips of Invercar

A 20-year-old man with serious face injuries has been taken to Southland Hospital after being hit directly in the eye with a firework. The incident was one of many which kept emergency services busy around the country in the lead-up Guy Fawkes night tonight. The man was taken from Waikaka, just nort

Canadian James Piccoli has become just the fourth foreign rider to win the SBS Bank Tour of Southland. New Zealand’s most prestigious stage race has attracted many fine overseas riders in its 61 year history, but it’s proven a tough event to crack with its tough conditions and a general reluctance b

A 19-year-old Central Otago man has been arrested and charged following the investigation into a fatal crash on Coates Road, Alexandra in August 2017. Around midnight on Thursday 10 August, 2017 Ravineel Avikash Sharma, a 19-year-old plumber from Alexandra, died in a single vehicle crash on Coates R

Rain causing a soaked track has lead to the decision by organisers of Friday’s Vertex Super Cup meeting at Riverside Speedway to be rescheduled to today. Speedway promotions officer Dean Miller said: the track was “too wet” to race on we’ll grade the track in the morning and prepare it for racing [o

Further update – collision in Frankton, Queenstown Delays continue on Frankton Rd, Frankton, Queenstown following a collision involving a school bus and another vehicle. One child from the bus was transported to hospital with minor injuries. The driver of the other vehicle has suspected moderate inj

Canadian James Piccoli will seek to become just the fourth foreign winner in 61 years of the SBS Bank Tour of Southland on the final day of the 2017 edition. The Kia Motors-Ascot Park Hotel rider holds a 35sec lead over Michael Torckler (Blindz Direct) and 38sec on Michael Vink (Mike Greer Homes) ah

Canadian James Piccoli has been one of the biggest contributors on this year’s SBS Bank Tour of Southland and he was finally rewarded with a stage win on the iconic Bluff Hill yesterday. Piccoli (Kia Motors-Ascot Park Hotel) has been prominent this week, including a second placing on Coronet Peak on