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Gulati Brothers Enterprises Ltd director Kunal Gulati at the hearing in Timaru on Monday. A Christchurch-based company has had its application for a liquor licence to operate a bottle store in Timaru declined. The application from Gulati Brothers Enterprises Ltd, which was heard by the Timaru District Council District Licensing Committee on Monday, hoped to establish bottle store at 155b Hilton Highway, near trampoline business Flip Out Timaru in the town’s industrial hub at Washdyke. In it...

Wilkinson said he believed he had permission to dump materials at the site and had stopped doing so when the Mackenzie District Council, which owns the land, asked him to do so. However, council says no such permission was given for what they labelled “illegal dumping” and it is now investigating. JOHN BISSET/Stuff The Mackenzie District Council, which owns the Pukaki Airport, claims Tricorp did not have permission to dump in the pit on the property. “Council would not agree to dumping...

JOHN BISSET/Stuff Election night joy as Labours Jo Luxton, with husband Matt, and supporters celebrate her win in the Rangitata electorate. A general election and a devastating fire dominated October’s headlines, writes Doug Sail in the 10th of our series looking back on the year that was. Jo Luxton was feeling ‘‘pretty damn good,’’ after winning the Rangitata electorate for Labour in a surprise general election result on October 17. Luxton, who lost to Andrew Falloon in 2017 by a m...