Police have revealed details of how the gun buyback process will work at a public demonstration today. New firearms laws are now in effect banning most semi-automatic firearms and some pump action shotguns, and also certain large capacity magazines. There will be 192 collection events for banned wea

Police have now released photos of the offender who robbed the Traffers Bar in Gore at around 8.45pm on Sunday 30 June. The man entered the Hokonui Drive premises armed with a knife and demanded cash from the bar manager. Unable to access the till, he fled from the scene on foot. The offender was […

Two concrete pillars commemorating pupils of the former Charlton School who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II have found a new home. The memorial pillars stood for decades at the Charlton Hall, about 6km south of Gore. They were recently offered to the Gore District Council when the hall w

Hiya team, how’s your health. A lot of this nasty flu going round. I have succumbed to it. Turned up for work, lasted 20 minutes then pulled stumps. While lying flat in bed and muttering “woe is me, woe is me” between sneezes and a runny nose I tuned into RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan. […]

Liam MacDonald secured the Southland Sports Car Club Champions Trophy for a sixth time at the club’s annual prizegiving at Teretonga Park on Monday night. During the 2018/2019 season MacDonald won the Keith McFadzien Trophy for the Motorkhana Championship and was runner-up in both the Sprint Champio

The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel has retained its highly-rated midcourt and added a new shooter into the mix to finalise its roster for the 2020 ANZ Premiership. Silver Ferns Gina Crampton and Shannon Saunders will line up for their seventh season with the southern franchise, while Kate Heffernan

The contract for the construction of a new Pyramid Bridge has been awarded to New Zealand company Concrete Structures (NZ) Ltd. Gore District Council Transport Manager Peter Standring said the company was one of four to tender for the project. It is planned to have work start on the site before mid-

The man missing from a cabin boat, Sundance 2, on Lake Wakatipu since Sunday 30 June has been named as Matthew Charles Duncan. The married 46-year-old from Bluff, known as Matt is the owner of Painting Solutions and had been working in Queenstown. Mr Duncan was the sole passenger aboard the cabin bo