Hamish MacLean

This Toyota Wish was involved in a two-car crash in Milton yesterday which resulted in two Milton women being sent to Dunedin Hospital suffering serious but non life-threatening injuries.

Leadman Russell (Ibby) Ibbotson (46), of Kaka Point, has challenged his father, Catlins Historical Society president Leadman (Ibby) Ibbotson (68), of Owaka, to go clean shaven for the first time in nearly 40 years as the two Catlins men go head to head in a beard growing contest.

For those who want more of Otago's cycle trail network, there is hope.

A Balclutha pensioner says rates rises over the next six years will force him out of his home of 20 years.

Catlins photographer Hayden Campbell has been surfing where he shoots for more than 20 years.

For the second time this winter a Kaka Point man has returned home to find the sheep that graze his property bloodied and maimed after an apparent dog attack.

After three years at South Otago High School, outgoing principal Joanne Hutt says she knows the year 9-13 school will continue to thrive after she leaves at the end of term 3.

Few appreciate the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter more than those living in remote areas such as Clinton.

It looked like Otago's number one year 7-8 Rippa rugby team members might have met their match yesterday when the Otago Rugby Football Club came to Balclutha Primary School to take them on, but in a ''next try wins'' situation the children toppled the Otago reps.

A 31-year-old Balclutha woman looking for a parking spot to visit the hospital ended up in hospital as a patient after a two-car crash on Clyde St in Balclutha yesterday afternoon.

Bruce Orr was honoured this week at the Holmdene Home for Aged in Balclutha for 60 years' service to the Freemasons by the Grand Lodge of New Zealand Freemasons.

Tokomairiro High School principal Glenis Sim (left) shows Education Minister Hekia Parata and Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay around the Milton school yesterday.

South/West Otago swim activation administrator Catherine Tate (left) and sports activator Rory McKenzie try out the new 2015 Nissan Pulsar bought by South and West Otago businesses for the programme, now in its fifth year, that brings a variety of sports to year 1 to year 8 pupils at 20 schools across the Clutha district.

The dead will stalk the Balclutha War Memorial Hall in October.

Invercargill basked in the good news yesterday that one of its major employers had struck a deal - at least for the short term - ending uncertainty for about 3200 Southland jobs.

Gold-mining is set to return to the Waitahuna Gully for the first time in nearly 70 years.

A predator fence and onsite accommodation are being considered for Long Point/Irahuka as the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust focuses its attention on its biggest yellow-eyed breeding site this year.

For the first time, the Primary Science Teacher Fellowship Alumni Award has been awarded to a South Island teacher.

Heads up, Balclutha - party at Tony Brown's. Or at least at the Clutha Rugby Football Club when Lee Allan brings the Super rugby trophy to Balclutha after Clutha plays its home semifinal on July 18.