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Ben Anderson (Caversham) displayed good early-season form and a maturity in his running tactics when he won the open men's 1500m at the Caledonian Ground on Saturday.

Twenty-three points in the final quarter were what it took for Otago to overcome a slick Tasman side to advance to the ITM Cup Championship Final.

The support shown to displaced Christchurch families by Wanaka's Mount Aspiring College in the wake of the February 2011 earthquake was repaid yesterday at the opening of a new outdoor performance area at the school.

Just two years after taking on professional stand up paddle boarding, former Wanaka woman Annabel Anderson has reached the top spot in the world after a striking run recently in which she won several major international titles.

Members of the Upper Clutha Vegetation Control Group say they are shocked at the "complete lack of remorse" shown by a landowner whose permitted bracken burn-off sparked a large fire which charred 350ha on Wanaka's Roys Peak this week.

Vintage dress patterns and chicken feathers may seem unlikely materials from which to craft a designer outfit, but pupils from Wanaka's Mount Aspiring College have shown anything is possible in the world of fashion.

Wanaka couple Keith and Pat Stuart, who celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary today, are still as hooked on horticulture - and each other - as they were when romance first bloomed at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens in the late 1940s.

Minister of Commerce Craig Foss insisted the Government was doing all it could to ease the impact of an overvalued New Zealand dollar, when he appeared as a keynote speaker at the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce Conference in Wanaka yesterday.

Step aside Usain Bolt. Otago athletes and supporters witnessed the emergence of another superstar in world athletics yesterday, when Audrey Thorburn raced her way into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Matt Gibbons overcame what he termed "a killer head wind" to clinch the senior men's title in the Hill Free Half Marathon yesterday.

One by one they were wheeled out - an endless procession of classic cars, planes, military memorabilia, stationary engines, buggies, boats, motorbikes and more.

Dunedin-based Rob Creasy will be a man on a mission when he fronts the starter at the World Triathlon Championships in Auckland next weekend.

A 67th-minute intercept try from Charles Piutau proved a dagger to Otago as it saw Auckland open up an eight-point deficit that Otago would never make up.

The Albert Town Bridge provided a perfect spectator vantage point above the Clutha River for the fourth day of the annual New Zealand jet-boat marathon yesterday.

A Wanaka politician departs New Zealand this morning for a whirlwind two-day visit to Korea to promote the Queenstown Lakes district.

A proposal for a new sludge disposal option for the Project Pure waste water treatment plant in Wanaka has been dealt a major blow.