"Girls' Day Out" trips to Ballantynes' small Timaru branch store are proving a huge hit.

Blues defeated but should take heart from performance that suggests not all is lost as season nears its climax.

Most of the Timaru crowd will be rooting for the southerners in tonight's duel.

A post-mortem examination on a 28-year-old woman found dead in Timaru yesterday will be completed some time this morning, police say.

A former Timaru woman serving a life sentence for murder has been released from prison for the second time.

Allan Hubbard is challenging the decision that saw him placed into statutory management.

Stats guru Tracey Nelson breaks down the latest round of the Super 15.