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Factory fire causes evacuations, toxic oil slick in Kaiapoi river
Factory fire sends toxic oil into the Waimakariri River mouth.
Factory fire sends toxic oil into the Waimakariri River mouth.
Trainer refutes wrongdoing and says he will fight charges.
The shift to red means a 100-person limit on events.
Residents in the area also reported an unplanned power outage.
Dunedin's sea lion population could be in for a record breeding season this summer.
The resignation just before Christmas has been called 'disappointing' by council.
Gusts reached up to 120km/h in Wellington yesterday.
'It sounded like a major earthquake every time the slips went.'
Four years ago, anti-coal activist Carol Cudby Robinson moved to coal town Ohai.
Police were notified about 12.20pm that a boat was in trouble in Bluff Harbour.
Arrests came after one of NZ's biggest ever drug busts.
Juvenile marsupial that 'held woman hostage' outed as a stray pet, raised in a lunchbox.
Property and cash forfeited after investigation into a cannabis operation in Greymouth.
Police say eight people have been arrested as part of the probe.
For the second year in a row the Ashburton A&P Show has gone ahead without spectators. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video / Daniel Tobin / The South Today
Some farmers said they had not been vaccinated yet due to the busy time at their farms.
Watch out for defensive swooping behaviour during the November-December nesting season.
Today's deal is NZRL's second major purchase of South Island farms.
People living in South Island can travel to Australia from Tuesday.
Two Paddocks "expanding and diversifying, and rationalising some aspects of what we do".
Wayne McIvor, 53, also made 32 calls to emergency services and the police.
OPINION: Delta will reach the South, but why give it an early invitation?
Farmer rushes to scene after hearing the sound of tyres screeching and then a loud thud.
A critical shortage of vets is set to get worse, heads of Southern practices say.
Sheep mustered near Omarama. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Video / Stephen Jaquiery / ODT
The latest ASB Regional Economic Scoreboard shows significant movement pre-lockdown.
NZ Merino Shears and NZ Spring Shears will take place in October.
When NZ "springs forward" this weekend, one town will never go back.
Internet restored for thousands on West Coast after lightning strike melts fibre cable.