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Greg Turner (left) and Mahal Pearce at a golf event at Chisholm Park links in 2016.PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON As the New Zealand Open celebrates its 100th birthday next week, Steve Hepburn talks to two Otago-based golfers who have won the national open. The Open will start next Thursday at Millbrook and the Hills in Arrowtown.

Dunedin ultra-endurance runner and joiner GlennSutton is all set to line up at the Badwater 135 in July this year.PHOTO: ADVENTURE MEDIA GROUP/DEREK MORRISON Dunedin ultra-endurance runner Glenn Sutton will line up for a third crack at the world's toughest foot race.

New Zealand had a disappointing day at the world junior championships in Canada yesterday.

A fire has broken out at the Harraway & Sons building on Main South Rd in Green Island this evening. 

A man has been charged following the use of a flamethrower during a complete fire ban near Nelson.

gettyimages-1070796498.jpg Julie Bishop has been an MP since 1998, and was Australia's first female foreign minister and deputy Liberal leader. Photo: Getty Images Julie Bishop says it was an "immense honour" to serve as Australia's first woman foreign minister, as she announced her retirement from federal parliament at the next election.

gettyimages-154944729.jpg Photo: Getty Images A Hastings landlord who owns about 80 homes across the region says a proposed capital gains tax could backfire on those who can only afford to rent.

A scene guard outside a Lock St home, believed to be the location of a violent crime. Photos: Stephen Jaquiery The man and woman arrested in Rotorua in relation to a death in Dunedin on Monday have been remanded into custody without plea after court appearances today.

National leader Simon Bridges with deputy Paula Bennett. Photo: NZ Herald National has come out swinging in response to the Tax Working Group's final report, saying its recommendations are an attack on the Kiwi way of life.

Northland Police have launched a homicide following the death of a baby girl in Kaitaia.

The blaze broke out at a warehouse storing chemicals in Dhaka. Photo: Reuters The death toll from a fire in a centuries-old area of the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, jumped dramatically to 56 on Thursday, a fire official said, and could keep climbing as fire fighters combed the wreckage of the destroyed building.

2019-02-20t205010z_1977532978_rc1dd0627170_rtrmadp_3_britain-eu-conservatives-quit.jpg From left: Former Conservative MPs Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston arrive at a news conference in London. Photo: Reuters Three MPs from Britain's governing Conservatives have quit over the government's "disastrous handling of Brexit", in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's attempts to unite her party around plans to leave the European Union.

2019-02-20t183249z_930976674_rc13cd4cb410_rtrmadp_3_britain-eu.jpg British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. Photo: Reuters British Prime Minister Theresa May has held "constructive" talks in Brussels, seeking concessions on Brexit from a sceptical European Union, her strategy under strain after the defection of three of her MPs.

The 1975 won BRITs for British Group and Album of the Year. Photo: Reuters The 1975 and DJ Calvin Harris were the main winners at the BRIT Awards, each scooping two prizes at Britain's annual pop music honours.

21feb-news-hogansweb.jpg The Hogans Gully golf course clubhouse designed by Auckland architect Andrew Patterson. Image: Supplied An application for a $30 million, 18-hole championship golf course near Arrowtown has hit the rough.

jussie-smollettreuters.jpg 'Empire' singer and actor Jussie Smollett. Photo: Reuters Actor Jussie Smollett was charged on Wednesday (local time) with filing a false police report when he said he was attacked by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic slurs, Chicago police said, with the actor now facing arrest.

Public drinking like this has been outlawed . Photo: NZ Police Queenstown cops issued zero fines in the first two months of the resort’s controversial booze crackdown.

Kaitangata Coal Mine, November 15, 1905, 26 years after a tragic explosion that killed 34 men and boys working at the site. Photo: Otago Images/Otago Daily Times As operations ramp up on the West Coast to re-enter Pike River mine, in another small mining town minds are turning to another tragedy underground - the death of 34 men and boys in Kaitangata in 1879.

Wild weather is expected to batter most of the country in the coming days, bringing thunderstorms, heavy rain and even some snow.

2019-02-20t215531z_1932596438_rc15ef0c5f00_rtrmadp_3_soccer-champions-s04-mci.jpg Manchester City's Raheem Sterling celebrates scoring their third goal. Photo: Reuters Ten-man Manchester City staged a dramatic comeback with late goals from Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling securing them a 3-2 win at Schalke 04 in their Champions League Round of 16 first leg on Wednesday that put the English side in the driving seat.