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Residents of a South Canterbury town have joined together to celebrate the colder months. The first Waimate Winter Festival wrapped up yesterday....

A week of fun for people of all ages starts in South Canterbury today as the inaugural Waimate Winter Festival is launched. It will run for nine...

Jo Sutherland is managing director of Magenta Associates Last month, 7,000 government representatives, investors, funders, developers, housebuilders and

Now to Waimate, where a local icon has received a half million dollar makeover. The white horse on the hill above the South Canterbury town has been given a fresh coat of paint and is now surrounded by a series of paths and platforms to allow locals, and visitors alike, to enjoy the area's views. Our reporter Timothy Brown and camera operator Nathan McKinnon went along to the grand opening.

THE line-up of a popular festival returning in full force this summer has been revealed.

A local Liberal Democrat candidate blamed unsustainable rent and rates for the imminent closure of a popular fashion store in Wick.

Representatives of 39 groups have a growing interest in the success of a community woodland venture which has marked a historic milestone.

The arrival of supplies and warmer weather means the redevelopment work on Waimate’s White Horse monument has resumed.

Boulton’s parents had donated to the construction of the White Horse in 1968 which was laid in concrete slabs over a three month period, costing $240 at the time according to Waimate.org.nz. Boulton said he could remember when the sculpture’s instigator Norman Hayman approached his parents, who were farmers in the Waimate district, about making a donation. JOHN BISSET/Stuff From left Waimate2gether project manager, Jo Sutherland with 84- year-old Robbie Boulton at the White Horse monument...

Waimate’s White Horse is getting a brighter future. The landmark on the hill above Waimate has been water-blasted and touched up, and over the next two weeks will be repainted in a glow-in-the-dark paint, donated by Resene. The work is part of a major redevelopment of the area, co-ordinated by Waimate2gether, which includes the construction of viewing platforms, new toilets, a car parking area, landscaping and new signs and information panels on the history of the South Canterbury town. Waima...