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The Gore District Council will lift the ban on handheld hosing at 7.00am today (Friday 8 December) after a replacement pump was installed at Gore’s main water source Cooper’s Wells. However, the reservoir needs to recharge, and with continued hot weather and very little rainfall forecast over the ne

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited today reduced its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the 2017/18 season from $6.75 to $6.40 per kgMS and updated the market on its financial results for the first three months of the 2018 financial year. Chairman John Wilson says the lower forecast Farmgate Milk Pri

Two Auckland Lotto players will be shouting from the rooftops after each winning $500,000 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Crystal Mini Mart and Lotto in Auckland and Pak N Save Wairau Road in Auckland. Powerball was not struck this evening and

A friendly reminder of the liquor ban zone in Invercargill. Remember breaches can result in your receiving a $250 fine. Check out the map below to ensure you’re in the know.

After an extensive career treating sports injuries, physiotherapist Gwen Harrop will relish the chance to be part of the solution instead. Harrop, 38, joins the Netball South team on December 11 in the newly-established role of NetballSmart Development Officer – one of six specialist facilitators na

The tribunal in the arbitration with Danone on claims arising out of Fonterra’s WPC80 precautionary recall in August 2013 has issued its award. The tribunal has determined that Fonterra must pay a total of NZD $183 million (€105 million) in recall costs suffered by Danone. In reacting to the announc

At around 1:40am on Sunday 3 December Police received a report that a man who had gone swimming at Waikawa Harbour, on the Catlins coast, had got into trouble. The Dunedin man in his 20s, had entered the water at the Waikawa Wharf and become caught in the outgoing current in the harbour channel. His

Police would like to hear from anyone who may be able to assist with enquiries into a fire at 24 Oreti Street, Invercargill early this morning. Police were notified about the fire just after 3am, which caused extensive damage to the building. No-one was inside the building at the time. Police and a