Anna Logue

Two of Australia's most in-demand 2D animation artists flew to the bottom of the country to spend a day with SIT students — and left impressed enough to say Invercargill was the highlight of their New Zealand tour. Melbourne-based Colin Bennett, widely known in animation circles by his online

Paying for groceries with your face is coming to New Zealand — and it is closer than you might think. EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that let shoppers pay using their face or palm, no card required. The terminals can also verify a customer'

Stags Day is on Saturday — the 250th game between Southland and Otago at Rugby Park, and every pub in town is falling in behind it. King Kapisi & Friends headline The Shack from 6:30pm. Waxy's, Speight's and Ascot Sports Bar are locking down the after-parties,

Che Fu is bringing Navigator back to life — all of it — and Invercargill is first cab off the rank. The New Zealand music icon will kick off a ten-date nationwide tour at the Civic Theatre on Wednesday October 7, celebrating 25 years since Navigator debuted at number one on the

Student art has arrived at the Civic Theatre — and it's free to see. Top Art, an annual touring exhibition of NCEA Level 3 Visual Arts portfolios, opened in the Wikitoria Room at Invercargill's Civic Theatre and runs until Wednesday August 5. The show features 27 physical

Opponents of Southland's $3.5 billion AI data centre want Datagrid to show up and face them. Hundreds packed into the Invercargill Workingmen's Club on Wednesday night, concerned about the 78,000 square metre hyperscale facility planned for Makarewa. So many turned up that some were

The team behind Cheeky Llama café in Queens Park has taken over Kahu Ariki, the café inside SIT's Centre for Creative Industries on Tay Street — and they came in with a plan. It follows a busy stretch for SIT's café scene: back in May, Emmanuel and

Left leaning media company Stuff Digital has begun consulting with staff over a proposal that could cut up to ten editorial roles from its digital newsroom — with journalists, reporters, and editors all in the firing line. The media company called affected staff into meetings on Wednesday, where Stuff Digital editor