The September 23 general election will be one of the ''most important'' of its kind.

It may be snow-go for some motorists this week, with white stuff on the way.

Southland police hunt hooded intruder who stabbed elderly Mataura man in chest

There were seven crashes, including one fatal smash, on New Zealand roads overnight.

Parliamentary officials reportedly know the content of the Todd Barclay tapes.

National Party board member who asked woman to withdraw Todd Barclay complaint named.

Todd Barclay: National MP, former tobacco lobbyist, and now in the thick of it.

A northwester warmed parts of the south, as those in the upper North Island shiver.

A house in Gore has been badly damaged in a fire.

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

Ted Gordon was heading to Gore when he got a phone call to say the man who raped and killed his daughter 23 years ago had died in a crash.

A Gore man has been arrested following an assault on Thursday evening.

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.

Former Gore mayor Ian Tulloch is out of intensive care and "on track to begin rehabilitation", his family says.

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.