Time to celebrate Waitangi Day
Official celebrations relaunched
Car hoons past buses
A motorist has been caught going 84kmh over the speed limit past a stationary schoolbus.
Council aims to cut costs
Closed-door mediation will not keep appeals relating to Queenstown's biggest housing subdivision out of the Environment Court.
MLT continues Steel deal
The Mataura Licensing Trust has continued its $20,000 sponsorship deal with Southern Steel.
Mataura back on Pluera if it rains
If the rain comes, the Mataura water supply should be reconnected to the Pluera dam by next week.
Monorail would ruin valley
A luxury lodge offering peace and quiet will end up next to the Fiordland monorail if it is built.
Man dies at motorcycle rally
A 65-year-old man has died at the Vincent Motorcycle Rally in Galloway, near Alexandra.
Councillor chides finance director
Invercargill city councillor Thelma Buck rebuked the council's staff finance boss for failing to bring rates figures to this week's council meeting.
Time to celebrate Waitangi Day
Driver felt impact but had not seen cyclist
Trust's $1m drive sensational
The last round of funding in a $1million commitment to put whiteboards and other interactive technology into schools was signed off.
Harper eyes win in last amateur
Cody Harper has played a lot of golf in his time, but this weekend is set to be his last as an amateur as he prepares to join the professional ranks.
Dance school hits streets for fun run
Lou and Paul Horo have some extra motivation for this year's BNZ Surf to City.
Experienced campaigner handed reins
So many questions, not many answers
Highlanders laid low by injury
Now there are more injury concerns for Jamie Joseph.
Behaviour not always expected
Much is being made about the reluctance of Mitt Romney (he is seeking the Republican nomination for the United States Presidential election) to release his past tax returns, writes Murray McClennan in this week's Taxing Times.
Workers may get return to Hillside jobs
Former KiwiRail Hillside Engineering Workshops workers made redundant in July are about to be given the chance to return to the plant.
K & K womenswear a big plus
Lorneville stock sale
Email policy needs thought
Should dealing with work emails out of office hours be classed as overtime?
A bit of culture
There was a mention of yoghurt in last week's commentary, albeit in the form of a style of cheese. Perhaps better described as strained yoghurt of a thicker consistency. So is it yoghurt or yogurt?
A high-f'luting argument over glasses
Georg Riedel reckons that champagne houses are packing away their flutes and serving their fizz in bigger glasses because it tastes better.
Now it's flotsam and jetsam
Cracking on with burghul
In the berry best possible taste
We have been well rewarded following the effort of planting a strawberry patch last year.
Buskers brighten CBD
A growing crowd has gathered in Invercargill's centre today as the Southland Buskers Festival continues.
New 'hard out folk' show
Cracking a beer and yarning has sparked a new show based on more southern "hard out folk".
Buskers head to town
Brothers in arms better than ever
Southland songs hit airwaves
Tall poppies are more than welcome at a new radio show, The Great Southern Songbook, that launches tonight.
Editorial: Cruel convergence
It was an unfortunate turn of phrase to call Glenn Becker a "fall guy".
Editorial: Treaty implications
Prime Minister John Key will have to tread a fine line on Waitangi Day when he delivers his promised settle-down explanation for why neither Maori nor anyone else need get too het up about the Government's resistance to include the Treaty of Waitangi section in State Owned Enterprises legislation into new law planned to cover state asset selldowns.
Editorial: Room for manoeuvre
Why the city should wait
The Secret Diary of ... David Shearer
Stephen Braunias checks out another secret diary in this week's May Contain Facts.
Apple acts against Kiwi driPhone
A single letter is at the centre of a fight between a Kiwi and technology giant Apple.
Micron CEO dies in plane crash
The CEO of one of the world's leading providers of advanced semiconductor solutions was killed when his stunt plane crashed in the US.
No 'Facebook fatigue' - survey
Rosie still takes the cake
Kiwi gaming's secret
Would you be surprised to learn that NZ is behind a successful online social game?
Southland Busker's Festival
Event Guide - The full schedule of events for this year's Southland Busker's Festival.
Smart, tense viewing
Even thought Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is packed to the gills with the best of British, it i still a movie where the story is the thing that you're watching for.
New name history in the making
It was out with the old and in with the new as Tuatapere Community College changed its name to Waiau Area School yesterday.
SBS Bank donates iPads
SBS Bank has donated three iPad 2s - valued at about $800 each - to the neurosurgery unit.
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