Photo: Otago Daily Times / Stephen Jaquiery
Negotiations between Contact Energy and mining giant Rio Tinto aimed at keeping the region's large employer, the Tiwai Smelter open. As media companies are feeling the heat and cost pressures, Southland is getting a new newspaper. And Waimumu, near Gore has just hosted Southern Field Days, and the Prime Minister dropped by and Mayor Ben Bell had a go at shearing.
