THREE KITTENS and their mother, found abandoned along with 26 other cats in Cromwell, sit comfortably in a cage at Catales, an animal rescue organization in Middletown. A passer-by found three pet carriers in a parking lot on Shunpike Road packed with 30 cats — 27 kittens and three mother cats. Fifteen of the cats [...]

Mahu Wairau, 42, had earlier admitted the January 21 burglary of Lorneville Superliquor and the January 22 burglary of Southern Fish Supply.
He had also admitted unlawfully possessing a sawn-off shotgun, threatening to kill, resisting police, driving while disqualified and refusing to permit a blood specimen to be taken at Invercargill on January 22, and driving [...]

I havejust spent five weeks working and experiencing life in China, with fellow dairy farmer Peter Ferguson. While it was good to return on Easter Monday to good, green Southland grass, there was a lot about China and the Chinese that impressed us.
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Tianjin, Chinas fourth largest city [...]

Stop organisingIsabel Choat, travel editorIt is natural when you have only two precious weeks of holiday to want to squeeze in as much as possible. I’m as bad as the next obsessive planner - poring over Lonely Planet or Footprint or Bradt or Rough Guide; marking sites I want to see with a rainbow of [...]

Senior Constable Chris Haines said he spotted a stationwagon at an intersection in south Invercargill about mid-morning on Thursday.
The %26quot;shortish%26quot; looking person behind the wheel caught his attention, Mr Haines said.
It turned out that a woman, who said she was not feeling well, had instructed her 12-year-old son to drive, he said.
She said they had [...]

Inspector Tony ONeill warned that police would be cracking down on young drivers who put others at risk after police had to section off the Thames and Dee streets intersection on Thursday night after offenders poured diesel on the road and did burnouts.
He said police fielded several complaints about problems at the intersection.
%26quot;They (boy racers) [...]

The driver, Ratu Victor Vikash Junior Lal, 23, and passenger, Adam Gary Bennett Herrick, 18, both died at the scene after their car rolled at the intersection of Birkenhead Avenue and Pupuke Road.
They were racing a second car, which did not stop. Police have appealed to anyone who saw the incident to call them on [...]

At 9.55am a van collided with a car at the intersection of State Highway 6 and the Lower Shotover Rd.
The force of the impact pushed the car on to the roads central median strip while the van came to rest on a grass verge on the opposite side of the road.
Sergeant Brian Cameron, of Queenstown, [...]