New home industry shed needed

Temuka Primary School students Grace Pelvin, 8, left, and Hollie Duncan, 6, show off a class-made art project about cats ...

An 146-year-old A and P show is holding its first silent auction this weekend, to raise funds to replace a shed as old as the event.

Visitor numbers climb

Visitor numbers at Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park continue to increase despite the effects of flooding events and other ...

The number of visitors to Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park is on track to increase again in the year to January, despite part of the park's most popular day walk being washed out for several months.

City Hub strategy moves forward

An overview of Stafford St, Timaru's CBD. (file photo)

A project manager has been appointed for Timaru's City Hub strategy.

No evidence presented in assault trial

The trial of Cameron Roger Leahy, 27, who denied injuring with intent to injure, was cancelled in the Timaru District ...

An Ashburton man has been cleared of wrongdoing in an assault which left a 75-year-old man with a broken ankle.

Makeover for Caroline Bay

C-Play Playground Upgrade Project committee members, from left, Owen 'OJ' Jackson, Roselyn Fauth,  and Leanne ...

A $2million upgrade of playground facilities at Timaru's Caroline Bay is a step closer to reality.

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'Biggest turn out in recent years' gallery

Participants begin the Hadlow to Harbour on Hadlow Rd on Sunday.

Sunday's annual Hadlow to Harbour fun run attracted close to 1000 entrants - up 200 on last year's event.

'I will continue making connections'

Judge Quentin Hix and sons, Abraham, 16, left, and Solomon Hix, 14, at the ceremony on Saturday.

Long-serving Timaru lawyer Quentin Hix has taken his seat as a District Court judge.

'This is not the last win'

Village Post Temuka owners Mary Felix and Felix Leo have scored four Lotto winners in less than a month. (File)

Temuka's Village Post could be one of the luckiest Lotto stores in New Zealand after another win on the weekend - making it four wins in one month.

Douglas calls it a day

Bob Douglas is retiring from Federated Farmers after 25 years in different positions at the organisation.

After 25 years of dedicated service to Federated Farmers and the farming community Bob Douglas is calling it a day.

A 'real opportunity' for Timaru to grow

An aerial shot of a Timaru housing subdivision underway in 2017. There have been calls to rezone more land for ...

Calls are being made for Timaru District Council to zone more land for affordable housing, as businessmen fear the district's growth could stagnate. 

Rugby shakeup on cards

SCRU chief executive Craig Calder says the findings of a review of the national game were potentially "exciting" and ...

South Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive Craig Calder says he's welcoming a proposed "once in a generation" shake-up of the game. 

Stem ambassadors wanted

Bluestone School pupils, from left, Lincoln Reedy, 12, Paige Crump, 11 and Summer Hellier, 11, from Bluestone School are ...

Local professionals from Timaru are being sought to be a part of Wonder Project, a free programme for schools sponsored by Engineering New Zealand. 

More whitebait protection needed, group says

The opening of whitebait season at Smithfield Beach, Timaru, in 2019. Forest and Bird is concerned about a lack of ...

A conservation advocacy group is calling for a licence requirement, catch limit and extensive data collection, and is warning the whitebait fishery is suffering the "death by one thousand cuts" of neglect.

Lotto fever hits

Village Post Temuka owners Felix Leo and Mary Felix scored a hat trick of Lotto winners this month, as the South Island ...

Close to 60,000 Lotto tickets have been sold in Timaru this month, but that number is expected to jump 25 per cent ahead of Saturday's $50 million Powerball draw.

Teenager's first solo flight video

Ava Venn, 16, after her first solo flight in the South Canterbury Aero Club's Piper Tomahawk at Richard Pearse Airport ...

Sixteen-year-old Ava Venn competed her first solo flight and landed "perfectly".

News

Encouraging young people into golf video

Ashburton Golf Club head professional Matt Davies shows Ryan Williams, 9, how to swing a club at the Temuka Golf Club on ...

Budding young Temuka golfers have had the chance to hone their skills with a professional.

Cat burglar burgled video

The shoe is on the other paw for Timaru's most notorious cat burglar.

No monitored fish screens compliant

Winning cyclists off to Cape Epic

Opinion

​Something fishy about proposed whitebait rules

Eve Akurangi whitebaiting at Timaru's Smithfield Beach on the last day of the 2019 season. Kevin Hague says meaningful ...

OPINION: Simple tools used to manage almost all New Zealand's fisheries should be employed for whitebait.

Neologisms added to the mix

The definition of the word neologism - using words in a modern way, have given columnist Derek Burrows much enjoyment.

Opinion: A few years ago, I came across a new word that at the time gave me a great deal of pleasure.

More marine reserves needed

Commercial fishermen estimate they'll take $3 million hit from the loss of  catch, with the rock lobster industry hit ...

OPINION: We'll need something akin to the Paris agreement on climate action to save marine diversity.

When beanbags go balls-up

The tiny white balls of an outdoor beanbag became part of a vacuuming job for columnist Derek Burrows.

Opinion: Excuse me if this column proves to be a little incoherent but it's about 30 degrees Celsius outside and I'm hot and sweaty having just come in from vacuuming the lawn.

Music is life, defend it

Music for the big occasion: Daniel Barenboim, general music director of the Berlin State Opera, performs with the ...

OPINION: We can never have too much music

We Are Timaru

Encouraging young people into golf video

Ashburton Golf Club head professional Matt Davies shows Ryan Williams, 9, how to swing a club at the Temuka Golf Club on ...

Budding young Temuka golfers have had the chance to hone their skills with a professional.

Cat burglar burgled video

Stig and owner Lisa Peckitt with the book, The Norwegian from New Zealand with the Very Sticky Paws.

The shoe is on the other paw for Timaru's most notorious cat burglar.

Winning cyclists off to Cape Epic

Timaru cyclist Amy Hollamby during the 2018 Pioneer Mountain Bike Stage Race which she and team mate Kate McIlroy, left, ...

Timaru's Amy Hollamby and Tim Rush, of Oamaru, will take on the brutal Cape Epic mountainbike race in South Africa.

Contestants in rush to race

Mosesa Guana celebrates near the finish of the 5km run/walk in the Whitehorse Big Easy in Waimate.

Tim Rush wins races on his mountain bike in Waimate and Albury at the weekend.

Trophy find renews old rugby rivalry

St John South Canterbury area manager Darren Grigsby holds on to the shield that Silver Ferns Pareora's Jaimee Wiki and ...

The discovery of an old sports shield at a South Island meat processing plant has reignited a sporting fixture last held in 1986.

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Cat burglar burgled

The shoe is on the other paw for Timaru's most notorious cat burglar.

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