Leading food company Alliance Group has distributed $1.73 million to shareholders to reward their loyalty. The co-operative’s Platinum and Gold shareholders, who supply 100 per cent of their stock to the co-operative, have received the quarterly payments, which cover the period July-September 2018.

10:44am UPDATE: SH 6 Queenstown to Lumsden – Crash – Delays – ROAD OPEN – The road is now open to one lane at the intersection of Allandale Road. Stop / Go traffic management is in place. Road users are advised to expect significant delays. One person has died in a serious collision between a […]

Leading food company Alliance Group has won two major food awards for its premium TE MANA LAMB. TE MANA LAMB, developed as part of The Omega Lamb Project, won the New Zealand Food Safety Primary Sector Products and Frozen categories at the New Zealand Food Awards, which showcases the best of New Zea

Michael Vink came into this year’s Tour of Southland under the radar, but that has all changed now. The 26-year-old Cantabrian made the torturous 12km Coronet Peak climb look like an escalator at the end of a 138km stage from Mossburn to Queenstown today to take a 1min 20sec lead overall at the midw

Over 2000 city schoolchildren will be treated to a performance of The Messy Magic Adventure next month, thanks to some passionate arts advocates. Jade Gillies, of Gillies Creative, and Sarah McCarthy, of McCarthy Media and Communication, both of whom are involved in the Invercargill theatre communit

Two mountain guides have died and climber Jo Morgan has survived after an avalanche hit near Aoraki / Mt Cook. Ms Morgan, a well-known adventurer, was with two professional mountain guides on Harper Saddle on Mt Hicks, near Aoraki / Mt Cook when they were caught in the avalanche. The bodies of the t

The Tour of Southland bared its teeth in an evil grimace on day two from Riverton to Te Anau today. New Zealand’s most prestigious bike race is renowned for its testing weather, and after a couple of years of relatively benign conditions, payback arrived in the form of wind, rain, hail and general m

Hey there team, how has your Roktober been treating you? We’ve had some great weather and great music. How about this to see out the month. U2’s dark and moody Bullet The Blue Sky from The Joshua Tree. Hard to believe that the Joshua Tree is over 30 years old. It’s a great album track […]