Linda Robertson

Bowls New Zealand wants to increase its registered membership by bringing casual and social bowlers into the fold.

The historic poles' days might be numbered but there's a new woody attraction at Dunedin's St Clair Beach.

An access way is needed to save dog walkers and cyclists having to cross the ''dreadfully'' busy and dangerous State Highway 1 at East Taieri, a concerned resident says.

Forget the playoffs - the Otago Nuggets will be lucky to win another match this season, based on last night's rancid second half performance against the Manawatu Jets.

It is rare to see Hannah Dockerty without her sketch pad and pencils.

Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust field manager Dave McFarlane (left) and Sinclair Wetlands Trust co-ordinator Glen Riley, and volunteers, dig in plants at the wetlands on the Taieri yesterday.

Life as a 10-year-old can be pretty sweet. But the 10-year-olds at Fairfield School have been learning this term that life for some people is not as free and easy.

Green Island School pupils (from left) Quinlan Rodger (6), Jenna Willis (9), Isabella Gascoyne (7), Taylor Cayford (6) and Paige Patrick (9) wear mismatched footwear as part of Odd Shoe Day last Friday.

There has been a new winner every year for the five years the ANZ Championship has been running. Will there be a sixth, and what is the chance it will be the Southern Steel? Coach Janine Southby did not dismiss that as a fairy tale when she spoke to netball writer Adrian Seconi.

At only 22, racing commentator Tom Wood, working at the Omakau gallops yesterday, says he is the youngest in New Zealand to be in the job and about the third youngest in Australasia.

Zoe Wan did not quite know what to expect when Australian science communicator and performer Chris Krishna-Pillay asked her to hold up a toilet roll during a show at Wall Street Mall on Saturday but she soon found out.

Curious onlookers check the inner workings of Adrian Mann's 5.7m, 1.2-tonne piano as he plays his favourite melodies, including music from Queen and Billy Joel, in the foyer of the Otago Museum yesterday.

Opponents of intensive dairy farming in the Omarama and Ohau areas were yesterday claiming a victory, but warning the war was not yet over.

Thousands of students are pouring into Dunedin and setting up flats in readiness for the new tertiary education year.