1080 operation starts quietly
The first stage of a large-scale 1080 poison drop in the Waitutu Forest began yesterday but without any protesting activity seen at previous operations throughout the country.Prentice kept deputy offer tape
By EVAN HARDING - The Southland Times
The Invercargill mayoralty race has spiced up, with challenger Suzanne Prentice yesterday disclosing the contents of a nine-month-old cellphone message she has kept in which Tim Shadbolt offers her the deputy mayoralty.
Helicopter goes down in Sound
By SCOT MacKAY - The Southland Times
A pilot was plucked from the water at the mouth of Milford Sound by a fishing boat last night after the helicopter he was in went down.
Minister refuses to engage in debate
Housing Minister Phil Heatley will not be enter into debate about whether the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust should be stripped of its charitable trust status.
Fatigue setting in: Southland CD boss
Southland's Civil Defence boss has returned from a city on edge, where he says people are fighting fatigue and struggling with the constant menace of aftershocks.
MP pulls Easter Trading Bill
Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean has pulled her bill to extend Easter trading before it could be "turfed out" in Parliament yesterday.
Parents invited to alcohol laws forum
Parents were "not powerless" over teenagers' access to alcohol and were being urged to air their grievances and concerns at a large public forum on alcohol law reform in Queenstown, the resort's alcohol action group said.
High hopes for web series
Need for split services highlighted
Boss hoping for go ahead
Southland Softball Association boss Craig Soper said Invercargill would quickly become the home of New Zealand softball and the World Championship would likely come to the city if his $3.5m Surrey Park development idea got the greenlight.
Hamstring injury sidelines Dixon
Twenty-one-year-old No 8 Elliot Dixon injured a hamstring at training yesterday and has been ruled out of the Stags' Ranfurly Shield defence against North Harbour in Invercargill tomorrow night.
City to host live TV game
Smith happy back on the farm
Talented players heading for Oz
Two of Touch Southland's exciting young talents will represent New Zealand for the first time next week – and they couldn't be more excited.
Aussie crayfish ban 'good news'
A ban on crayfishing in South Australia during October is likely to mean more stability in prices for fishermen in Southland.
Voting on bill to extend Easter trading 'will be close'
Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean will go before Parliament today without the confidence her bill to extend Easter trading would be passed, after it was drawn from the member's ballot last month .
Cardrona forced to close to oxidisation ponds
Numbers good for expo's first day
Bank plants seed idea
Customers at Queenstown's SBS Bank can grow their own herbs and vegetables as part of a seed giveaway the bank started last week.
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High hopes for web series
Queenstown is almost guaranteed international internet exposure through a web series focused on Gay Ski Week, but could receive a mass audience if the series is picked up by MTV.
Best jobs of the future
The world of tomorrow will probably be a very different place from what we know today, and so will our job descriptions.
Bank plants seed idea
Why dressing well pays
Farming worms
With millions of mouths to feed, Robbie Dick is a busy man.
High hopes for web series
Queenstown is almost guaranteed international internet exposure through a web series focused on Gay Ski Week, but could receive a mass audience if the series is picked up by MTV.
Cybercrime hits 70pc of Kiwis
Seventy percent of New Zealand adults have been the victim of cybercrime, according to a report from security software firm Symantec.
Google touts 'instant' search
Google announces TV service
When hacking hits home
Twitter has more mysterious forces than indecipherable trending topics and Lady Gaga.
Piers Morgan replaces King
British television host Piers Morgan will replace veteran CNN talk show host Larry King.
Aussie writer up for Booker Prize
Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey is a finalist again for one of literature's most prestigious and contentious awards.
Rocky Horror creator a step closer to Kiwi passport
Bassist leaves Jane's Addiction
Britney accused of sexual harasssment
Britney Spears' ex-bodyguard has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him.
Editorial: Getting elected
We don't have any particular candidate in mind when we say this, but some people are better at getting elected than being elected.
Editorial: Own little worlds
They're calling it the iPod zombie trance – the distracted state that pedestrians get into when they're in the thrall of their favourite music.
Editorial: Counting blessings
Editorial: Artful dodgers
Editorial: Changeable weather
Julia Gillard tried for a clarion call when she promised greater accountability and transparency from her new Australian government with the declaration "Let the sun shine in."
If it happens in the wee small hours, it'll be online
They reckon times of adversity bring out both the best and the worst in people, and the Canterbury earthquake shows that ``they'' are, once again, correct, writes Jillian Allison-Aitken in this week's Online.
From wild child to Warrior
Last year rugby league star Brett Seymour hit rock bottom, writes Logan Savory in this week's Sav's Say.
That irrefutable defining moment
Remarkable talent at school
Kieran Read linchpin for ABs
In 2006, a couple of mates and I tagged along to AMI Stadium in Christchurch to watch Canterbury take on Counties-Manukau on a lazy Sunday afternoon, writes Brendon Egan in this week's Nothing But Net.
And Another Thing
Pat Velkamp Smith and Patricia Soper take a gentle look at life and all its quirks
