Claire Allison

More than a century of service with the Waimate Volunteer Fire Brigade will come to an end on New Year’s Eve.

More than a century of service with the Waimate Volunteer Fire Brigade will come to an end on New Year’s Eve.

Christmas has come early for Timaru’s planned new multimillion-dollar destination playground.

The committee behind plans for an ‘‘epic’’ new playground in Timaru is hoping to find a philanthropist willing to invest in the multimillion-dollar project.

The committee behind plans for an ‘‘epic’’ new playground in Timaru is hoping to find a philanthropist willing to invest in the multimillion-dollar project.

Timaru has the capacity and capability to complete the $344million Scott Base build ‘‘in spades’’.

Peter Collins is the Santa of spuds in Pareora.

Peter Collins is the Santa of spuds.

Twenty-first century technology has been used in an effort to solve the murder of a South Island policeman  100 years ago.

As a child, Lindsay Green was fascinated when he tagged along with his Waitohi farmer father to buy grain from the local CFCA.