Mike Sanford

Southern District Police have arrested and charged a man with Nomad gang links as part of ongoing Operation Cobalt, targeting gangs. The man initially came to Police attention last Friday after an alleged fleeing driver incident in central Invercargill. Further enquiries resulted not only in the arr

Keith McKenzie’s huge contribution to the Woodlands community has been acknowledged by the Waihopai Toetoe Community Board and Southland District Council. Councillor Paul Duffy presented a Community Service Award to Mr McKenzie at a function at the Woodlands Tavern on Thursday 21 July. Mr McKenzie’s

Like tens of thousands of New Zealanders, the Taxpayers’ Union submitted to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on Three Waters (Water Services Entities Bill). With the Union’s submission was a bombshell legal opinion. Ministers have repeated assurances that councils will continue to own wa

This poll we asked which existing Invercargill City Councillors (who are not standing for mayor) will you be re-electing to the council table. Again in this poll just like the Mayoral snap poll Rebecca Amundsen isn’t getting any cut through, second last just ahead of Lesley Soper. You would think wi

New Zealanders have said Stop Three Waters, with 68,661 submissions lodged at StopThreeWaters.nz by 65,091 unique users on the Government’s Water Services Entities Bill by midnight last Friday. Of those 8,634 people indicated they’d like to make an oral submission. Late Friday afternoon, staff from

This afternoon Invercargill City Councillor Ian Pottinger put out a media release confirming speculation that he would drop out of the mayoral race and focus on being re-elected to council. This follows another mayoral candidate Rebecca Amunsden today announcing the same, to drop her mayoral aspirat

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Heavy snow for the south and east of the South Island. Severe south to southeast gales possible for parts of the South Island A very cold south to southeast flow spreads north over the South Island today (Sunday), bringing snow to low levels to many areas of the South Island. Heavy Snow Warnings and