Road closed, one dead, multiple injured after car and campervan collide near Gore.

Armed police have spent three hours trying to enter a house in Gore this evening.

Investigation was into whether Todd Barclay breached a section of the Crimes Act.

Southland shearer Leon Samuels today set a new world solo eight-hours strongwool ewe-shearing record after a tally of 605 in a woolshed north of Gore.

One person has died and another has been injured after a single-vehicle crash near Gore.

Single vehicle crash on Donald Road, resulted in one dead and another injured.

A "large amount of personal belongings and money" was stolen from cars.

The crash resulted in the death of a motorcyclist. It occurred on SH1 around 4pm just east of Pukerau.

Big swells predicted to surge up the eastern side of New Zealand from Kaikoura to north of Mahia Peninsula

The man killed in a motorcycle crash near Gore on Tuesday was convicted of raping and killing a South Otago woman in 1993.

Road toll now equal to last summer's following death of motorcyclist.

Gore's anti-prohibition whisky makers had plenty of bite, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Three boys were playing in the school grounds when they were approached by an unknown man.

Gore's art gallery is the magnet, but other delights abound too, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Firefighters from across Southland who were called to an explosion at Dongwha New Zealand's plant in Mataura at 4.30pm are preparing to leave the scene.

A home has been destroyed by fire in a Gore overnight.

A car has collided with a fire engine just south of Gore.

Our political correspondent ponders possible predators of the New Zealand, Chinese and American variety.

Paul Rush finds Gore is hooked on trout, hooch, abstract art, insects and music.

Whisky and art are the first drawcards - but Colin Hogg is surprised to find there's much more to the once-named Chicago of the south.

The body of a missing Gore woman Bernese Fiveash has been found by police in Invercargill.

Blue Sky Meats, whose shares trade on the Unlisted platform, has agreed to acquire Gore-based Clover Export.

A hit a tree south of Gore this morning, and the impact was enough to split it in two.

An accused man made a break for freedom from the Gore District Court yesterday and is still on the run.

No matter what the weather's doing, Pamela Wade finds entertainment in Southland and Central Otago.

'There's quite a lot of devastation in there'. It took more than 90 firefighters to bring a massive blaze in Gore under control at a commercial building.