Southland

SH94 near Pop's View Lookout will be closed Monday to Thursday, 8pm to 5am, for around five weeks, with a short opening at 10pm to let traffic through.

Leo's mother completed four dialysis sessions in Dunedin then a further eight in Invercargill after her transplanted kidney failed during a visit from Shanghai.

The woman was Kararaina (Kara) Aroha Toimata, 30, from Balfour, Southland. Police are appealing to the public for information.

From Andorra to Lumsden, Ben Airey's stage win on the SBS Bank Tour of Southland was a dream come true today.

A Gore player has won $33,959 with Lotto Second Division in last night's draw.

Cambridge's Matthew Wilson produced a commanding performance on the 108km stage from Mossburn to the Remarkables to win the stage by more than 1min.

Southern career firefighters may be walking off the job at the end of November for 10 hours at a time, after rejecting the latest pay offers from Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ). An overwhelming majority (99 percent) of union members rejected the October offer of 2.2 percent. 88

Fellow SIT student Holly Wolf placed fourth, putting two SIT stylists in the top five nationally amongst a record number of entries.