A state-of-the-art flight simulator has landed in Otago, giving local helicopter pilots the opportunity to fight catastrophe from the comfort of a computer.
A fatal crash that closed the highway between Cromwell and Clyde for much of the day was followed by a second crash this evening close to where the first occurred.
The Recycled look is back in style in Wānaka. Runway models were strutting their stuff last Thursday night, as part of the Refashion Show at the Lake Wānaka Centre.
Supporting efforts to free an American journalist imprisoned in Russia for a year is a way of standing up for journalists everywhere, says the organiser of a swim at Brighton Beach in Dunedin.
Invercargill councillors have not held back in their assessment of Mayor Nobby Clark’s use of racially charged language, with one saying she was "absolutely disgusted".