Sam Henderson

With flood, fire, avalanches and damage to bridges and roads, it could be a scene from a disaster movie.

Feeling ‘‘on top of the world’’ when she is on the snow is a liberating experience for aspiring athlete Gemma Fletcher.

Heritage objects from the Teviot District Museum in Roxburgh are being preserved in digital form.

Weeding could one day be much easier thanks to the inventive mind of Alexandra Primary School pupil James Avenell.

The Wanaka Road Crash Rescue Team have won the Australasian Rescue Challenge for the second year in a row.

Love was in the air as candidates were sworn in as New Zealand citizens at a ceremony in Alexandra yesterday.

A restructuring of Alexandra's Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery has turned around the museum's finances, chairman Russell Garbutt says.

A project to build an eco-friendly tourist village and therapeutic centre near Clyde has had to hide its website behind a password after running foul of the Financial Markets Authority.

Living your later years in the lap of luxury by Lake Wanaka is the aim of a proposed $100 million retirement development.

Breaking out of the jailhouse with a boxful of loot proved too difficult for a pair of opportunistic thieves.

Maori waka could one day be a familiar sight on the waters of Lake Hawea.

Braving breakdowns, bare naked challenges and bumpy rides, 60 Minis taking part in the Pork Pie Charity Run will reach their final destination today, Invercargill.

Albert Town bridge is an "earthquake disaster waiting to happen", the Albert Town Community Association says.

For the first time Grand and Otago skinks have been released into the Mokomoko Dryland Sanctuary near Alexandra.

The Naseby Athenaeum's reading room will be home to an expanded collection of items to borrow this summer, thanks to the creative mind of a young reader.

A group of Indian students and their Kiwi counterparts last week immersed themselves in a range of water-related issues in Central Otago as part of a global leadership and sustainability initiative.

Lovers of specialty Jimmy's Pies products will have to head to Roxburgh for some of their favourite treats, after the company streamlined its bulk sale items.