Mike Sanford

Invercargill’s recently-rebranded holiday park on the north side of the city on McIvor Rd is keen to welcome holiday travellers. With direct flights from Auckland to Invercargill resuming, Southland could get a well-deserved boost in tourism this holiday season. The locally-owned Invercargill Holida

Environment Southland’s latest monitoring has found elevated levels of toxic algae at Hamilton Burn, at Affleck Road. Toxic algae (benthic cyanobacteria) can be recognised at rivers and streams as a green/brown slime on rocks, or dark brown/black mats at the water’s edge. Several factors can contrib

A new tuatara is stalking the streets of Invercargill, providing weary cyclists a unique place to park their bikes. The tuatara bike stand has been positioned outside the Invercargill Public Library and blessed by Waihopai runaka representative Victor Manawatu. We would also like to acknowledge the

Work towards reimagining Southland’s museum and art gallery is progressing at pace with a new name and vision to tell the stories of Southland leading the way. Invercargill City Council committed in its Long Term Plan to invest $39.4 million to redevelop the city’s museum and art gallery, which was

A lucky Strike player will be celebrating a midweek windfall after winning $200,000 with Strike Four in tonight’s Lotto draw. The winning ticket was sold at Devon Lotto‘N’Treats in New Plymouth. Powerball was not struck this evening and has rolled over to Saturday night, where the jackpot will be $6

Fonterra shareholders have today given the Co-operative’s new capital structure proposal the green light with 85.16% of the total farmer votes in support of the proposal. The final votes on the capital structure proposal were cast at a Special Meeting in Invercargill early this afternoon. Chairman P

Invercargill City Council has sold a large piece of farmland about 10km south of the city, but is remaining tight-lipped about how much it went for. Questions also surround loans that were written off over the project, and why a decision was made to sell this year. Between March 2006 and June 2008,

A new community pump track was built on the corner of Oreti Rd and Dunns Rd to honour the legacy of Otatara man Derek Gostelow and his family. Mr Gostelow, a former resident, left $90,000 in his will for the Invercargill City Council to use for community projects within the Otatara area and communit