Malcolm Gayfer

A Government investment of $25 million will create 180 jobs and improve the safety and resilience of the Homer Tunnel on the crucial State Highway 94 (The Milford Road) tourist route linking Te Anau and Piopiotahi Milford Sound, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones says. The multimillion-dollar inves

While it was cold outside, freezing actually, the self styled champion of the regions Shane Jones brought warmth, some laughter and a big bag of money for various southern organisations and businesses. One of the big handouts is for  stop-bank upgrade work for our rivers. This follows on from the ca

Hi there team, how’s your week been travelling so far. Hope everyone is keeping warm, having said that more cold temperatures are on the cards for the end of the week. This week Mal’s Music Memory travels back in the time tunnel to 1970 – 50 years ago as we feature two Kiwi No 1’s […]

The National Agricultural Fieldays was officially opened online today (Mon) , replacing its usual opening event, normally held at Mystery Creek near Hamilton. The event, which attracted 130,000 people last year, was due to start in June but was postponed as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. New Zea

The Northern Stars have proven too strong for an injury-hit Southern Steel outfit, easing out to a 48-39 national netball premiership win in Auckland. Already missing goal attack Georgia Heffernan to a season-ending knee injury last week, the Steel lost key goal shoot Jennifer O’Connell in Friday’s

Hiya team and welcome to this special edition of Mal’s Music Memory with Little Fire MusicWorks We’re celebrating Ringo Starr’s 80th birthday this week, 7th July to be precise. We’ve picked a couple of Beatles tracks on which he featured, Birthday from the White album where he plays a cracking track

We’ll be back to do some more. That’s the word from Police in Invercargill after a successful but chilly native tree planting operation. The operation lead by the Invercargill Police Dog Section and Iwi Liason went ahead recently at Fosbender Park in-spite of very frosty conditions. Constable Jono A

A newly formed Invercargill home based business is off to a roaring start. Curvy Rentals NZ is the creation of Sammi Smith and is already attracting nationwide attention. Curvy rentals hires out dresses for plus sized women who want something for a special occasion but don’t want pay for something t