Rain washes out Canterbury's one-day hopes

after only 31 overs had been bowled in the first innings. Having been sent in to bat, Otago lost opener Sam Wells for a duck to Hamish Bennett but were steadied by a 109-run stand for the second wicket between Hamish Rutherford and Aaron Redmond. Rutherford's ...

Jesse Ryder has made a solid return to cricket in a one-day game for Otago against Central Districts today. Batting first at the University Oval in Dunedin, Ryder made 34 from 40 balls as the Volts tried to recover from a poor start which saw both ...

ESPNcricinfo staff November 28, 2014 Text size: A | A An unbeaten half-century from the opener George Walker helped Central Districts beat Otago by six wickets at McLean Park. Chasing a revised target of 121 from 17 overs, Central Districts were wrecked early ...

Fires are continuing to burn after a steam train sparked a dozen fires along a rail track in North Otago over the weekend. The excursion steam train ignited more than a dozen fires along an 11km stretch of track south of Oamaru on Saturday ...

A Taiwanese visitor who drowned at a Central Otago lake last week has today been named by police. I-Ching Cheng, 26, failed to surface when she went for a swim at Lake Dunstan at Deadman's Point, Cromwell about 4pm on Friday. Her body was found ...

An Otago farm worker has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kill the farm's owner. Police and Dunedin Armed Offenders Squad were alerted to the alleged threat to kill the Kaiwera farm owner just before 11pm yesterday. Police arrested a ...

A search is underway for a swimmer who went missing in Cromwell in Central Otago this afternoon. Police said they were notified that a swimmer had failed to surface during a swim at Deadman's Point in Cromwell about 4pm. A search is underway in ...

A former Central Otago policeman, sentenced yesterday for intentionally making an intimate recording of another person, stood before the court "a thoroughly broken man", his counsel said. Judge Kevin Phillips said he was granting the man final ...

A former Central Otago constable has been sentenced to intensive supervision for using his police-issue iPhone to film a teenager in a shower. The 48-year-old man, who was granted final name suppression, appeared before Judge Kevin Phillips in the ...