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Two lucky Lotto players from Auckland and Invercargill will be on cloud nine after each winning $500,000 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold on MyLotto to a player from Auckland and at Elles Rd New World in Invercargill. Powerball was not struck this

New Zealand cyclists will be looking to this week’s UCI Track World Championships as an important litmus test on their progress towards next year’s Tokyo Olympics. The 17-strong Vantage Elite team face a five-day competition starting on Wednesday at the BNP Paribas Arena in Pruszkow, Poland. Injurie

Following a whirlwind 72 hours, Southland’s Corbin Strong has landed home from Bundaberg last night and has flown out this morning to join the Cycling New Zealand team bound for the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Poland. New Zealand is taking an 18-strong team to the champs, where they tak

Yesterday morning Telford students were welcomed onto the Balclutha campus with South Otago High School students performing a Haka and singing a waiata as part of the official Powhiri. This was attended by Southern Institute of Technology CE Penny Simmonds and support staff of both SIT and Te Wanang

Police can now name the woman killed in a crash on Old Coach Road, Otaraia, Gore on 15 February. Police extend our condolences to Katie’s family and loved ones. She was Katie Deborah Robertson, aged 21. A police investigation into the crash is ongoing. Friends and family can read Katie’s funeral not

Police are responding to a serious crash, involving two cars, in Otaraia, Gore District. The crash occurred on Old Coach Road, close to the intersection of Kaiwera Road, at 11am. One person is reported to have received critical injuries and another person received serious injuries. Two helicopters w

Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker says the Government’s blows to regional and rural New Zealand keep coming. “Today’s announcement of the Government’s proposed reform of vocational education through the centralisation of polytechs is another blow to the regions,” Mr Walker says. “It is the people in

The government has proposed merging all 16 polytechnics into a single national institute and radically reforming industry training organisations. Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the plan was challenging but necessary for shoring up a sector that had suffered falling enrolments and multi-millio