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Winston Peters. It's been nearly 26 years since Winston Peters officially launched New Zealand First. Back then, he was the firebrand non-conformer, the winebox-wielding champion of the people.

Sarah Raschke sits in front of her near-complete mural in Woodhaugh, Dunedin. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN A Canadian woman who stopped to rest a while in Dunedin is leaving her mark.

The St John ambulance service says it is learning from its mistakes as complaints about its performance mount up.

Escudo Coatings' managing director, Scott Taylor, and Paul Graham, having just hauled electroplated parts from the rinse tub, heated by the waste oil burner (below). PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON Burning waste oil to solve a burgeoning environmental problem sounds like an alarming contradiction in terms.

The forthcoming quarterly reporting season for listed US companies could be "make or break'' time for the rally seen in global sharemarkets in recent months.

The Harvard and Yak-52 teams, pictured here at Warbirds Over Wanaka in 2010, are returning to the airshow next year. PHOTO: PHIL MAKANNA New Zealand's two premier civilian formation flying teams have confirmed they will be performing at next year's Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow.

David Mayhew outside the Dunedin courthouse. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON He was a cabin boy on the Earnslaw, swept the streets of Queenstown and picked the fruit in the Cromwell Gorge before it was flooded by the Clyde Dam.

Two Waitaki District Council ward boundaries are to be redrawn before this year's local body elections, the council has confirmed.

Cromwell Community Board member and Tarras resident Annabel Blaikie (left) and Tarras resident and Anzac Day service organiser Spin Lucas show off the new flag that will be raised at this year's Tarras service. PHOTO: PAM JONES Two special flyovers will feature at this week's Anzac Day service in Tarras - one atop the community's flagpole and the other in the skies above.

Event organiser Quentin Currall, of Lawrence, and dance partner Honsai He, of Christchurch, lead a combined dance at the Easter Scottish country dance school in Owaka yesterday. PHOTO: RICHARD DAVISON Owaka Memorial Community Hall has been echoing to the beat of the Highlands.

James Anstiss Queenstown professional James Anstiss finished his New Zealand summer with a bang but there is new ground to explore as his career continues in an upward trajectory.

Ben Smith The Highlanders will be without their talisman for a match shaping as a potential banana skin for the side.

Blues winger Rieko Ioane attempts to get away from Highlanders front rowers Tyrel Lomax (left) and Liam Coltman at Forsyth Barr Stadium last Saturday night. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON The Super Rugby competition is just past the halfway mark. So who are the players in form, who are the ones struggling and who might as well put the passport for Japan away now? Rugby writer Steve Hepburn picks a form XV from the five New Zealand teams in the competition.

Ben Deeley The books are just as important to Ben Deeley as his boots.

Well-bred squaregaiter Jaccka Jeorge can continue his family's impressive trotting legacy at Invercargill today.

Kelvin Tyler Brothers Kelvin and Steve Tyler dominated yesterday's Riverton meeting by training the winners of half the 10-race card.

New parking permits, including for small passenger service vehicles, will come into effect in the Queenstown Lakes district on July 1.

A fleeing driver dodged road spikes, but crashed into a police car and sent the patrol vehicle smashing into a house, during a pursuit in Invercargill this morning.

treeholeaucknzme.jpg The tree pit where Bruce Steedman fell on Broadway in Newmarket in March. Photo: Supplied via NZME. A grieving Auckland woman is seeking legal advice after her elderly partner suffered fatal injuries when he fell into an open tree surround on a busy Newmarket street.

A man has been charged following an alleged shooting that left another man critically injured in a small town south of Auckland.