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A key resource will be under the spotlight next week as 300 delegates descend on the city for the 2016 New Zealand Freshwater Science Society Conference starting on Monday. The theme for this year’s conference is “fresh water on the edge” reflecting the push towards the edge of scientific knowledge,

The official launch of the (SoRDS) Southland Regional Development Strategy is on tomorrow at Bill Richardson Transport World. RSVP’s have hit 500+ which is an impressive turnout. Plus Ministers Steven Joyce, Nathan Guy, and Te Ururoa Flavell will also be at the launch. (SoRDS) Southland Regional Dev

Police can now name the person killed in a fatal crash near Moeraki Boulders, Otago on Tuesday 22 November 2016. She was 39-year-old Miss LI, from China. The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash is ongoing and for that reason Police cannot comment further.

Netball South is strongly represented in the New Zealand U21 squad named by Netball New Zealand today. Defender Abby Erwood and shooters Jamie Hume, Jennifer O’Connell and Aliyah Dunn earned selection in the 17-strong group after impressing at an intensive four-day camp in Auckland over the weekend.

Local MP Sarah Dowie says she hopes local teachers will apply to the Teacher-led Innovation Fund to get support to trial their ideas on innovative teaching practices. “I want to see our local teachers supported to try new things in the classroom to raise achievement, this fund is doing just that,” S

Simulation suites, which can be set up to replicate operating theatre or an emergency department resuscitation bay, are a feature of a purpose built education centre opened at Southland Hospital today. The purpose-built facility will be used for delivering the hospital’s busy training and education

Work has started on installing the City’s Christmas decorations with all the new lights and Christmas trees set to be up by the end of this week. Council’s Roading Manager, Russell Pearson, said there were delivery issues with the materials due to the earthquake but the container of decorations was

A 23-year-old Cromwell man has been charged with careless use of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, after a passenger on a quadbike he was driving fell from the vehicle and later died from his injuries. The passenger, 20-year-old Andrew Paul Grubb of Palmerston, fell from the quad