Aimee Wilson

Audit New Zealand directors Derek Ollsson and Chris Genet turned up to council’s Risk and Assurance Committee this morning in person. The Invercargill City Council felt blindsided by auditors late last year and disagreed with its opinion on its financial performance. When the risk and assurance comm

An invitation only energy and innovation expo is on this week at the Ascot Park Hotel featuring some high profile Australasian speakers. Murihiku Regeneration is hosting the expo in conjunction with the Invercargill City Council, and starts today with school teachers invited to Transport World where

Thousands of people watched online and the public gallery at the Gore District Council was filled with supporters of Mayor Ben Bell today, who clapped and cheered when a motion to try and remove him failed to cross the line. There was meant to be a vote of no confidence in the Mayor but when […]

Splash Palace is getting some extra attention by the Invercargill City Council, after a vocal meeting by concerned members of the community raising about the changing rooms. Invercargill media and the council staff got a surprise when they arrived at the Southalive Pod meeting room last Thursday, to

H&J Smith department stores will no longer be open from November 18, after more than a century in business.  The H&J Smith Group (HJSG) announced its proposal to call time on its long running Department Store business, and staff were told yesterday – including 220 in Invercargill. The news comes jus

Nominations for the vacant Invercargill City Council seat have officially opened, and some councillors have shared their views on the situation. Deputy Mayor Tom Campbell said he has heard that some of the original candidates are not standing again, “so the field is wide open.” He said it was defini

Gore district councillors will ask for ministerial intervention and try and pass a vote of no confidence to remove Ben Bell as Mayor on Tuesday morning.  Deputy Mayor Keith Hovell and intermediary Cr Richard McPhail met with the Mayor on Wednesday, and asked him to resign, but he refused.   Seven ou

Former pupils of Rosedale Intermediate School from its first intake of students in 1963 have met up in the south for a reunion. The reunion is for first day pupils of class IH and 2H who had Mr Hillstead as their teacher. Organised by Alison Beaumont, who now lives in Arrowtown, the original 60-year