Mesopotamia, Mount Peel

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Do you have any festive tips your community needs to know about? Post them here!

2621 days ago

How will this affect your wages?

The Team from ACC New Zealand

For most workers, part of your wage goes to ACC. We’re proposing you pay more because accidents and medical costs have gone up. If you’re a wage earner, these proposals could affect you.

Learn about all the proposals and have your say at our site by October 25.
Learn more

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2623 days ago

Go the mighty Green and Blacks

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

South Canterbury rugby team is just one win away from the Meads Cup final in the Heartland Championship.

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2623 days ago

Get down to the Caroline Bay courts to check out the action.

Rachael Comer Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Organisers of the Bike Polo Australasian Championship, in Timaru, say 11 teams are coming from all over New Zealand and Australia.

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2624 days ago

Pleasant Point school community set to remember

Rachael Comer Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Wensley Jackson may be 94 years old, but he can still remember his days at Pleasant Point Primary School.

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2624 days ago

Are you planning to spend the long weekend in South Canterbury?

Rachael Comer Reporter from The Timaru Herald

The Australasian bike polo championship, a steam and craft festival, and rally driver Hayden Padden returns to South Canterbury for a motorsport festival.

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2624 days ago

Don't forget to enter Colour Your Community!

Resene

For a second year, Neighbourly and Resene are challenging you to Colour your Community! Make a positive difference in your neighbourhood by transforming an area that needs a little love. There's six prizes of up to $1000 worth of Resene paints, wood stains and accessories up for grabs!

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For a second year, Neighbourly and Resene are challenging you to Colour your Community! Make a positive difference in your neighbourhood by transforming an area that needs a little love. There's six prizes of up to $1000 worth of Resene paints, wood stains and accessories up for grabs!

Whether it's a new mural for your community hall, a graffiti clean up or a local playground paint job, apply now on behalf of your organisation, business, or for your own community project.
Enter now

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2625 days ago

Have you signed the petition to support Timaru's raceway?

Rachael Comer Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Realising potential could be key to saving Phar Lap Raceway

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2625 days ago

Are you a follower of Timaru's burgeoning stand up comedy scene?

Rachael Comer Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Award-winning Christchurch comedian Justin "Rusty'' White is in Timaru to deliver the laughs.

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2625 days ago

Shags choose unusual nesting place at Timaru port

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

They're safe for now as port plans a $2 million project to widen the port channel.

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2626 days ago

6000 tahr to be culled in just four weeks

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Agreement reached on DOC's operational plan gives green light for controversial tahr cull to begin on Thursday.

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2626 days ago

Do we waste water?

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Timaru Boys' High School student Bailey Lissington thinks we do and his bright invention, which manages water use, has been named as a finalist in a national young inventors' competition.

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2626 days ago

Is it a waste or do we need it? Call for new waste sort facility in Timaru

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

The Timaru District Council is being asked to approve a new $360,000 waste sort facility.

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2626 days ago

Save them or knock them down? More Timaru District Council buildings identified as earthquake prone.

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

Another four TDC-owned buildings have been identified as being earthquake prone including one which would be used as a Civil Defence headquarters in the event of an emergency.

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2627 days ago

Would you grow Timaru's version of the Christmas tree?

Doug Sail Reporter from The Timaru Herald

It's a tree which is a combination of the southern rata and pohutukawa seed.

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2627 days ago

Two dead in SH1 crash north of Rangitata

The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz

Two people are dead following a two-vehicle crash north of Rangitata between Ashburton and Timaru. Police say State Highway 1 is closed at the intersection of Ealing Rd, just north of the Rangitata Bridge.

A police communications team member said two vehicles were involved and the crash is … View more
Two people are dead following a two-vehicle crash north of Rangitata between Ashburton and Timaru. Police say State Highway 1 is closed at the intersection of Ealing Rd, just north of the Rangitata Bridge.

A police communications team member said two vehicles were involved and the crash is reported to have occurred about 1.40pm.

The Serious Crash Unit will be attending and diversions are in place at Delmaine Rd, Hinds to the north of the crash scene and at State Highway 79 to the south.

Northbound traffic should turn onto SH79 at Rangitata, on to Route 72 at Geraldine Arundel Road and right onto Hinds Arundel Rd.

Motorists are asked to avoid the area if possible and expect delays, and to follow the directions of emergency services onsite. This detour is not suitable from HPMV's but is suitable for 50Max traffic.

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