Sally Rae

Leading South African merino breeder Andries Pienaar says he is "living his dream".

A slice of Oamaru will be displayed at a New Zealand cultural and innovation festival in Seoul next month.

Summit Wool Spinners wants to consult its employees and their unions before deciding how to restructure Oamaru's second biggest employer in the face of "an unprecedented fall in orders".

Sally Rae got into a bit of hot water in Omarama recently - up to her neck, in fact.

Sixty years of marriage have gone quickly for former Hampden mayor and mayoress Hugh and Trixie Muldrew.

The Iona Playgroup - believed to be the only playgroup in New Zealand associated with a rest-home - will celebrate its 15th anniversary on Thursday.

Education Minister Anne Tolley has ordered a commissioner to replace the board of trustees at Otepopo School - a former winner of the Goodman Fielder best small school award - following a critical Education Review Office (ERO) report.

Oamaru residents are hoping not too many jobs are lost when the town's second major employer, Summit Wool Spinners, tells staff tomorrow afternoon at a meeting in the Elim Church the effects of a lack of orders.

A meeting at the Dunsandel Railway Station led to 65 years of marriage for Jim and Alison Phillips.

Mike Allison has been appointed commissioner of Otepopo School at Herbert, following the dissolution of the school's board of trustees last week.

Oamaru House, in Dunedin, celebrated a milestone on Saturday - 10 years since the facility was officially opened to provide accommodation for friends and families of people in hospital.

When 99-year-old Arthur Wilson worked at Longslip Station back in the 1920s, the winters were so harsh the musterers' boot laces used to freeze "like a piece of steel".