Margaret Phillips

A decision to carry on with this year's Hokonui Fashion Design Awards has been proved correct for executive producer Heather Paterson as entries have flooded in.

Rebecca Gutschlag's involvement with the Hokonui Fashion Design Awards spans from the catwalk to show choreographer.

Solid Energy's briquette plant south of Mataura has been sold to Australian-based company GTL Energy.

Pint-sized singer Ailin Pekar has deviated from her Latin roots by choosing to sing and play country music - the 9-year-old has entered the New Zealand Gold Guitar Awards for the first time this year.

When Tamworth Queen of Country Music Lucinda Whitehorn landed in the South last week she was excited to see rain and snow-capped mountains.

The rusted remains of an old steam locomotive built in 1907 were unearthed when Solid Energy was working on a new coal-mining area at Ohai recently.

The extraordinary record-breaking numbers of entries enjoyed during the past two years of the New Zealand Gold Guitar Awards has not been repeated this year.

It might have been the most terrifying night of her life but it was also the one that brought the most delight to young Gore songbird Jenny Mitchell, who will sing on Sunday in the final of New Zealand's Got Talent.

Jenny Mitchell has heaps of home-town support as she prepares to perform in tomorrow's semifinal of the television programme New Zealand's Got Talent.

A new rural health centre in Gore will use new technology to improve health systems and services.

Three Gore teenagers have returned from the Tamworth Country Music Festival triumphant.

West Otago sharemilker Jim McDonald has come up with a novel business idea to keep his stock on the hop.

It is all right to report domestic violence, is the message Janice Paterson, the former partner of Gore district councillor Steven Dixon, is sending to the community after he was sentenced this week.

It can rain, blow, freeze or snow and Eastern Southland netballers do not care.

Pupils from 14 schools explored exhibits at this year's Fonterra Science Roadshow, which was hosted by Gore's Longford Intermediate School this week.

Indians and Harley Davidsons along with myriad other top-notch bikes with gleaming paintwork and plenty of chrome converged on the Waimumu Field Days' site for the Mates Motorcycle Club annual rally last weekend.

The Mataura Christian Church is offering practical help to the community. A church team will carry out jobs around the house or spring clean the garden all free of charge for a day later this month.

Elaborate decoration will take the cake at the New Zealand Cake Decorators Guild conference in Invercargill this weekend.