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Image: RNZ Health New Zealand has confirmed it will slash hundreds of IT jobs - about a third of all roles.

A motorist trying to evade police had his tyres spiked several times north of Dunedin but continued to drive before he was arrested in Palmerston this afternoon.

Former Mataura RSA president Dave Mackenzie remembers the lives we have lost in service to our country. PHOTOS: ELLA SCOTT-FLEMING Anzac day in Gore began in the pitch-black cold with a dawn parade down Mersey St to the cenotaph.

The new year was celebrated with a fireworks display in the Octagon in Dunedin. Photo Peter McIntosh Any hopes fireworks would return to Dunedin's New Year's Eve celebrations this year have been shot down.

New toiletry kits and two new pulse oximeters were donated to Gore Health by the Southern Masonic Trust this past week (from left) Masonic Charitable Trust secretary treasurer Christine Baird, Gore Health chief executive Karl Metzler, Masonic Charitable Trust chairman Neil O’Rorke, past Southland District grandmaster Russell Falconer. PHOTO: GERRIT DOPPENBERG Forget the smoke and mirrors, the secret is out, the Freemasons in Southland are a charitable bunch.

File photo: Peter McIntosh Education is trending positively for the Gore district, as pass rates are exceeding national averages despite shake-ups in the curriculum.

A speed camera in Wellington. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone By Phil Pennington New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) is defending its controls around an expanding and more powerful highway speed camera system that privacy experts had said lacked national oversight.

Cr Colin Reidy walked out of a recent meeting. Supplied / BDC website By Lois Williams Buller’s mayor Jamie Cleine is calling for civility after a councillor saw red and stomped out of a council meeting last week.

File photo Westpac is extending a four-wheeled solution to a lack of bank services in some southern towns - mobile banking.

Highlanders co-captain Hugh Renton. File photo Highlanders co-captain Hugh Renton will be back on deck to play Moana Pasifika this weekend.

Jarrod Kingi was last seen on Friday night Photo: NZ Police Police looking for a man missing since Anzac Day are searching areas around Whangamatā Harbour in the Coromandel. 

Brendon Renwick was struck by a van while crossing at the intersection of Carmen and Buchanans Rds. Brendon and his mother Angela want police to find the driver who hit him. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN A Christchurch mother is frustrated by a lack of communication from police after her son was injured in a hit-and-run.

Brendon Renwick was struck by a van while crossing at the intersection of Carmen and Buchanans Rds. Brendon and his mother Angela want police to find the driver who hit him. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN A Christchurch mother is frustrated by a lack of communication from police after her son was injured in a hit-and-run.

The Just Four Kids tamariki team visited the Gore mayor marking the culmination of their sensory learning fun adventure.