Let Kids Be Kids These School Holidays With Kidzone no longer operating, many Southland parents are wondering what there is for children to do these school holidays. For Gareth and Katie, founders of True in Nature, the answer is simple: Get Children Back Outside and Back to Basics. Their nature-based

The President of the Eastern Southland Car Club (ESCC), Nigel King of Rakahouka, will have a foot in two camps when the club hosts the Barry Robinson Memorial Rally Southland, Round 3 of the Brian Green Property Group NZ Rally Championship (NZRC), on Saturday 18 July. Not only is he

Your power bill could shrink — but only if you're willing to do your laundry at midnight. New rules took effect today requiring large power companies to offer time-of-use pricing plans to households and small businesses. The Electricity Authority is now mandating what the big generators have quietly avoided

A Tokanui man has been sentenced to 12 months' home detention after being convicted on 35 charges for repeatedly discharging agricultural effluent into the Tokanui Stream. Andrew Wright was sentenced in the Invercargill District Court after the charges — all in breach of the Resource Management Act — arose from the

Two Japanese players from the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights will join the Southland Stags for the 2026 NPC season, extending a sister-city relationship between Invercargill and Kumagaya City that has been running since 1993. Hayata Taniyama and Takaya Saito, both from the Wild Knights, are heading south — adding experience and

Invercargill’s Deputy Mayor Grant Dermody will represent the city council on the Local Democracy Enhancement Working Party. The ICC decided this afternoon (June 30) to approve principles in guiding the proposal for the Government’s ‘Head Start’ process, alongside the Southland reorganisation process with Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ.

An Invercargill signage company is doing work at Queenstown Airport, one of the South Island's busiest transport hubs. Creation Signs is currently undertaking signage work at the airport as part of a long track record of delivering projects across New Zealand. General Manager Riki Shuttleworth said regional infrastructure

Brendon Leitch came back from nowhere — twice — to claim back-to-back Pro-Am podiums at Spa-Francorchamps in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe series. The Invercargill driver and American co-driver Don Yount were running the #70 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 for Leipert Motorsport in blistering heat. Qualifying was messy — Leitch narrowly missed