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From a cheese roll making workshop, street busking and a mai mai farm tour to concerts and a talent quest, Gore will be a hive of activity over the...

Gore District councillors will consider footing the bill for the Bayley’s Tussock Country Music Festival marketing co-ordinator’s position for...

Vehicle lovers of all ages descended on Wānaka at the weekend for the Wheels at Wānaka vintage fair. The two-yearly, three-day event takes place on...

The Hokonui Ute Muster was quintessentially Gore – celebrating utes, mullets, and dogs.

“There was a big discussion and a hurried meeting, and they let me perform, but only because I’d come so far.’’ Thirty-seven other contestants had performed in the hall that day and the backing band, Les Thomas and the Countrymen, had already packed up. A smaller, three-piece band, agreed to back her. “I sang Paper Roses [by Marie Osmond] and Connie Smith’s Once a Day. They did all the judging in the preliminaries back then, and then there was an evening showcase. “And then...

Rachael Kelly13:54, May 25 2021 Robyn Edie/Stuff Arun OConnor, of Invercargill, will perform at the Top Paddock concert in Gore on Saturday night, which is one of the first events of the Tussock Country Music Festival. O’Connor won the New Zealand Gold Guitars in 2018. (File photo) Motel rooms are booked out, the utes are getting a polish and the tickets are selling like hotcakes. Gore’s inaugural Tussock Country Music Festival, encompassing nine days and more than 30 new and traditional e...

MetService is warning of thunderstorms in many parts of the country, and the risk of "large, damaging hail and possibly a small tornado" in eastern parts of the North Island.

MetService is warning of thunderstorms in many parts of the country, and the risk of "large, damaging hail and possibly a small tornado" in eastern parts of the North Island.