To celebrate 60 years of racing the Riverton Trotting Club is running a Pick Five competition with a jackpot of $1000 at all three of its meetings this season starting this week at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill (Thursday, 3 December). If the jackpot is struck on either the first two meetings a

The Flying Kiwis team, made up mostly of Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) students, were the winners of the Start Up Queenstown Lakes Startup Weekend, held over the weekend in Queenstown. The team based its business idea around the problem of unconscious bias in employment and hiring. The solu

OSCA Super Saloons are the big attraction at the Southland Sports Car Club’s pre-Christmas motor race meeting presented by Downer this weekend. They are just one of eight classes on the programme in what is traditionally one of the most varied line ups at any meeting during the season. They will be

Mid Canterbury reinsman Ricky May was in dominant form at the Downbytheseaside Battle Of The Sexes Drivers Challenge at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill last Wednesday. The Invercargill Harness Racing Club has been running a driver’s challenge with the support of Woodlands Stud since 1989 and in a

Northwest gales for parts of central and southern New Zealand A front over the south Tasman Sea is forecast to move east over the South Island today (Wednesday) and then weaken as it crosses the North Island on Thursday. This front is preceded by a strong north to northwest flow, and followed by str

A chilly bin-stashing drug dealer has been put on ice thanks to a humble roadside police checkpoint. Officers conducting the checkpoint on State Highway 94 near Lumsden got more than they bargained for when they stopped the 29-year-old on Friday. Operation West was meant to be a simple road policing

The Gore District Council has today presented a concept plan to transform a tired, but much loved building, into a legacy space for generations to come. The Gore Library and Community Spaces Redevelopment project will see the James Cumming Wing become the permanent home of the Gore Library as well a

Saturday’s Santa Parade went off without a hitch, in the words of event organiser Alice Pottinger. The Southland Christmas Parade Charitable Trust has been running the event since 1999 and now organisers and volunteers just know what needs to be done, she said. Alice said the weather was the big hig