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It’s not every day you win $250,000 – but today is that day for four Lotto players who won Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Onerahi Bookshop and Lotto in Whangarei The Cutting Bar and Lotto Shop in Auckland Ashby Superette in Auckland a MyLotto play

Invercargill Police are seeking information from the public following a serious assault in the early hours of Thursday morning (29th June) in the city. A man was walking to work at around 3.20am in the area of Nith Street and Eye Street when he was attacked from behind and seriously assaulted in an

Police are investigating reports of illegal hunting in the Rowallen Forest near Tuatapere in mid-June. In particular, Police would like to identify the occupants of a black double-cab ute which entered two isolated residential properties in the area in the early hours of Saturday 17 June. The vehicl

Update # 2 – search for fisherman, Southland Police and Search and Rescue staff have concluded today’s search for a missing fisherman off the Slope Point coastline. The missing man, 29-year-old Shan Norton McLauchlan, was reported overdue yesterday. A team will tomorrow return to the coastline to co

Name release – Middlemarch plane crash Police can now name the person who died following a plane crash at Welshman’s Creek, northeast of Middlemarch on Sunday 25 June. He was 73-year-old Murray Joan Barrington of Brighton, Dunedin. Police extend their condolences to his family. The cause of the cras

Update State Highway One (Waikouaiti-Waitati Road), Dunedin, has reopened following a fatal crash this afternoon.   Police would like to thank motorists again for their patience and cooperation while diversions were in place.   Please be careful in the wet weather and keep an eye on your following d

Some of the best brains behind New Zealand’s craft brew industry will be in Invercargill this week for the Southern Malt Collective. Now in its fourth year, the collective, hosted by Invercargill Brewery provides a rare chance for brewers to meet with brewers with to share and growing their skill-se

A car rolled near Gore on Thursday evening two people are seriously injured. What we know: A man and a woman were injured, one seriously and the other critical Two ambulances were sent to the scene at Diamond Peak Road Both people were flown by helicopter to Dunedin Hospital Police were also at the