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A man who helped shape our city has passed away. Russell Cunningham died earlier this week after enduring a hard fought battle with dementia. Russell Cunningham started his working life as an apprentice builder who became a builder of spec houses dotted around Invers. That grew into his construction

Invercargill’s and New Zealand’s newest hotel is rapidly taking shape. The whatsoninvers.nz team were taken for an in depth look behind the scenes of The Langland’s Hotel with ILT Communications manager Emma Hunter and Marketing and Innovation executive Angee Shand. All we can say is that this lates

It’s birthday celebration time for one of the greatest song creators of modern times, Sir James Paul McCartney as he celebrates his 80th, yep 80th birthday this weekend. As the Rolling Stones sang Time Waits For No-one but McCartney has been keeping up with and ahead of many of his peers in recent y

The race for the mayoralty of the Southland District Council has become a two horse race. Te Anau based publisher and former journalist Kirsty Pickett has put herself forward as the candidate for the mayoralty of the District Council. SDC councillor Rob Scott is the other candidate at this stage see

Winter has well and truly arrived in the south. A bitterly cold front has delivered extremely strong winds and squally showers from the early hours of this morning (Tues). PowerNet report that a large area of provincial Southland has had power supplies disrupted. Philip Duncan from Weatherwatch.co.n

Work in developing a housing project at Invercargill’s Ascot Park Racecourse is getting closer to a start. Southland racing Club President Sean Bellew says first part of transformation of the front car park area in to a housing development is about to get underway. Bellew says the Racing Club is app

Update: Invercargill Central fly through video embedded below. It’s barreling along! That’s the state of play with progress on the building of Invercargill Central. whatsoninvers.nz had a walk through with new centre manager Kelvin Mooney through the week. We can only say that we are, and no doubt y

Hey there team. We continue to mark New Zealand Music month and this weekend we’re featuring the music makers of now. Yer just can’t have an up to date NZ Music feature without something from SIX60. A top band continually producing top material. Second up is Benne, a creator of supa-catchy pop songs