Mike Sanford

The Lumsden Heritage Trust will be holding an official opening of the restored historic A class passenger carriage A199 at the Lumsden Railway Precinct on Queens Birthday Monday, 6 June 2022, at 12.45pm. The carriage A199, which is being used as an information kiosk, will be officially opened by Sou

The battle against ‘the gorse of the sea’ is off to a strong start after year one of the Jobs for Nature Fiordland Undaria Control Programme has come to a close. During the first year, divers removed 30,000kg of the invasive weed from more than 25km of coastline in Te Puaitaha/Breaksea Sound. The pr

A host of New Zealanders have been honoured for their service in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours list. Among them are Tā Tipene O’Regan and Dame Silvia Cartwright, who have been made Additional Members of The New Zealand Order of Merit. Here is the full list of those receiving

An exciting new category and 39 finalists across 17 codes and pursuits have been confirmed for this year’s ILT Southland Sports Awards. For the first time, New Zealand’s longest running regional sports awards are including a Community Impact award to celebrate initiatives which have had a significan

Today’s Cabinet reshuffle has been sparked by the departures of Kris Faafoi and Trevor Mallard. Earlier, it was confirmed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would announce some “minor” changes to the Cabinet line-up. Ardern confirmed Faafoi had decided to leave Parliament to be with his family as his you

A man has died following a workplace incident in Kaiwera, Gore this morning. Emergency services were called to the scene about 9.55am. The incident has been referred to WorkSafe, and the man’s death will be referred to the Coroner.

Mooving day has come and gone with the team at AWS Legal seeing a record number of settlements. The first day of winter, mooving day marks the date farming families, shareholders, contract milkers and employees across the region move to new farms. Despite it being just one day, preparation for moovi

The current media landscape is concerning. On Thursday night the GroundswellNZ and the Taxpayers Union Stop Three Waters roadshow rolled into town.  It was a full house at the Working Mans Club of over 600+ people attend. Not a peep or mention from ODT, Southland Times / Stuff’d, Southland Express,