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Prebbleton will play the club’s first ever Chatham Cup game on Monday. PHOTO: PREBBLETON FC Prebbleton are gearing up for their first foray into New Zealand’s oldest football competition on Monday.

After 54 years of running the Prebbleton Tavern, Merwyn and Marie Gilmore (inset) have decided to sell the business. Photos: Daniel Alvey / Supplied Merwyn and Marie Gilmore have owned the Prebbleton Tavern since 1970 - but now the veteran publicans have decided it’s time to get out of the game and put it up for sale.

Allegations of historical sexual abuse in the secretive church begun coming to light in the USA after the death of a leader in 2022. Photo: Getty Images By Amy Williams  Warning: This story discusses details of sexual abuse. Former members of a secretive sect under investigation by the FBI for historical child sexual abuse warn it is a highly controlling and insular group with many unwritten rules.

Destiny Church protesters and counter protesters from the rainbow community outside the Gisborne library in March. Photo: RNZ A Rainbow Storytime nationwide tour planned for later in the year has been cancelled, due to threats of violence.

The Black Caps have scored a four run win over Pakistan in the fourth T20 cricket international in Lahore.

Snow is expected to fall on many of the South Island's mountain passes overnight. File photo A raft of road snowfall warnings have been issued for South Island alpine routes, including Arthur's Pass. 

A flood damaged rail bridge has been reopened after a concrete support pier was swept away in high waters, leaving the 610m-long structure sagging, but a mayor says more investment is needed for crucial infrastructure.

A jack-knifed truck is blocking both lanes of State Highway 8 at Manuka Creek this morning.

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Southland motorcycle rider Cormac Buchanan celebrates finishing third in race two at the opening round of the JuniorGP World Championship in Misano, Italy. PHOTO: MANU TORMO Cormac is hungry for more.

Courtney Dempster of Invercargill (left) with Invercargill Harness Racing Club president Craig Heyrick, and Julie McEwan-Franks of Southern Harness Racing, just moments after winning the diamond ring. PHOTO: MONICA TORETTO Courtney Dempster of Invercargill was the big winner of the Invercargill Harness Racing Club’s major promotion at their annual Diamonds Day race meeting at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill on Sunday.

The Wairio Trotting Club will hold a 10-race card at Central Southland Raceway in Winton on Saturday.

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Vegetables Think ahead to next spring and improve the quality of heavy, clay-based soil by digging it roughly, so different levels are exposed to winter frosts, winds, rain and sun. Raw manure can be added also and will break down over winter.

Seventeen kākā chicks have been reared this season at the Dunedin Botanic Garden Aviary. PHOTO: NEALE MCLANACHAN Did you know that a group or flock of kākā is known as a ‘‘hoon’’? That is certainly the case at the aviary right now with South Island kākā chicks hooning up a storm as they learn to fly.

A casual meander over stone pavers links a sequence of gardens to a spacious central courtyard at the heart of this Wānaka home. The courtyard allows the house to regulate its temperature and provides shelter out of the wind, while also drawing landscape and light into the urban context. PHOTOS: STUDIO COLLISION A Wānaka house is designed to be an adaptable retreat in a changing environment, Kim Dungey reports.

Laying the foundation stone for the new Dunedin cenotaph in the Queens Gardens, Anzac Day 1924: Mayor of Dunedin Harold Tapley addresses the crowd. Otago Witness, 29.4.1924 Yesterday, the ninth anniversary of the historic storming of Gallipoli by the men of Australia and New Zealand, was solemnly observed as a day of remembrance of their glorious deeds.

An approaching automobile announced its presence from a great distance in the North Otago countryside. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES As a child, I would lie awake in my grandfather’s house and listen to the traffic. The big wooden house was only a few metres from State Highway One, but, 60 years ago, the traffic, especially after dark, was pretty sparse.