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Leading food company Alliance Group will reward its committed shareholders with a distribution of $5.9 million in loyalty payments today. The quarterly payments have been made to the co-operative’s Platinum and Gold shareholders who supply 100 per cent of their stock to the company. Today’s loyalty

Invercargill Police are searching for two youths seen running from the Doon Street hedge fire at around midday. A police spokeswoman said officers were following information received from witnesses and fire crews that two youths were seen running from the burning hedge on Doon Street  towards Burger

Gore sheep farmer Logan Wallace has joined the race to be crowned the 50th FMG Young Farmer of the Year. The 28-year-old has been named the Otago/Southland FMG Young Farmer of the Year for a second time. He reclaimed the title after taking out thehotly-contested Otago/Southland Regional Final in Win

Two Lotto players from Mount Maunganui and Alexandra will be popping the champagne after each winning $500,000 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Bayfair Lotto in Mount Maunganui and Alexandra New World in Alexandra. Powerball was not struck this

Police are appealing for information following an aggravated burglary in the Southland town of Waikaia last night. About 9.15pm a man armed with a knife entered a Blaydon Street property. He struggled with a woman living at the address and demanded access to a gun safe. He is described as about 30-y

Invercargill Police investigating the aggravated robbery of Pomona Street Discounter Dairy last night are appealing for information. At around 9:30pm two men entered the store armed with a claw hammer and a knife. One man was wearing a blue hoody with white writing, grey track pants with two blue st

Air New Zealand is continuing to work with engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce on a global issue involving some of the Trent 1000 engines that power its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner fleet. European regulator EASA issued a directive requiring operators of a type of Trent 1000 engine known as ‘Package C’ to ca

Northerly gales over the lower South Island on Sunday. A front will move onto the South Island from the Tasman Sea, bringing heavy rain to parts of Fiordland and Westland, and a Heavy Rain Warning is now in force. This front is also forecast to bring northerly gales to the lower South Island, with F