Latest fromOtago

Club rugby wrap
Recap of all the club action action throughout Auckland, Counties Manukau and North Harbour.

Rare NZ 'bisect' stamp on auction
A small blue envelope carried 150 years ago from New Zealand to Edinburgh is set to fetch up to $20,000 at auction - for having just half a stamp.

Good taste: Happy harvest
The 2011 harvest is all but over for the country's winemakers. The vineyard managers can take a well-earned break after the harvest hullabaloo, happy in the knowledge the wines are safely in the tank.

German gecko thieves jailed
Two German men who admitted travelling to New Zealand to steal rare native geckos have been jailed after they pleaded guilty to separate charges of hunting protected wildlife and possessing four rare jewelled geckos.

Book Review: <i>Fosterling</i>
Emma Neale is a poet, novelist, teacher and anthologist living in Dunedin. Her latest novel, Fosterling, is the sort of book that can only come from multiple roles and experiences.

Cattle truck crash victim named
A cattle truck driver killed when his truck and trailer rolled on SH1 north of Kaikoura has been named.

Police urge drivers to be patient on the trip home
The Easter holiday road toll stands at five after a single-vehicle crash in Taranaki last night.

Many attend rainy Anzac Day services
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out at dawn services across the country.

Man turns himself in after shotgun domestic
A Dunedin man who sparked a police manhunt after he fired a shotgun during an argument with his partner has turned himself in.

Manhunt after shotgun fired in domestic incident
Police are hunting a 50-year-old Dunedin man after he fired a shotgun during a domestic incident in Central Otago.

Child killed in van's lake plunge named
A tragic accident at a roadside stop by the edge of a South Island lake resulted in the death of a three-year-old Auckland boy yesterday.

Burning car may hold clues to Dunedin murder
A car found burning in the western suburbs of Dunedin may hold clues to the "gruesome" murder of an unemployed man.

Man died in 'gruesome' circumstances
Police have found a weapon believed to be involved in the death of a man whose body was found on an Otago beach yesterday.