Steve Hepburn

The Highlanders have enjoyed a 70% increase in crowds this year and it is not just students who are coming back to support the team.

The new board of the Otago Rugby Football Union should be known by the end of the week.

Hosea Gear is talking with a Japanese club but he has not given up on his dream of wearing the All Black jersey.

Siale Piutau is loving being back on the field, but this season will be his last in a Highlanders jersey.

Morne Steyn will play his 100th game for the Bulls when the side takes on the Highlanders at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday night.

Two Dunedin club players have left to spend the next month playing sevens rugby on the other side of the world.

Former Mosgiel footballer Cameron Howieson has been named in the All Whites senior squad to start on the road to the next World Cup.

Georgia Mason is only 14 but she is mixing it with women at least twice her age.

A season-shaper is about to be played out: the Highlanders facing the Hurricanes in a game that will go a long way to deciding both teams' prospects.

It really was the one that got away.

The Highlanders are not out of the playoff hunt but coach Jamie Joseph warns they need to cut out the silly errors if they want to remain competitive.

Julian Savea broke the hearts of the Highlanders with a match-winning try at Forsyth Barr Stadium.

It has not been the greatest 16 months on the rugby field for Colin Slade. But he remains positive and is not turning his back on the game he loves, he tells rugby writer Steve Hepburn.

The Highlanders are entering the crunch period of the season. Rugby writer Steve Hepburn looks at what has to be done to make the play-offs for the first time in a decade.

Skipper Jamie Mackintosh will have a rest when the Highlanders take on the Hurricanes at the Forsyth Barr Stadium tomorrow night.

Highlanders loose forward James Haskell had a mixed day yesterday.

The Otago Rugby Football Union has raised $500,000 to pay back small creditors, saying it is due to a massive amount of generosity shown by people right around the country.

The Hurricanes have named a near full-strength side to take on the Highlanders at Forsyth Barr Stadium tomorrow night.

Grass-roots rugby will be played at Forsyth Barr Stadium this season.