Mike Sanford

Southland District Council has confirmed a concept plan for Winton Library will be presented to councillors next month. Group manager services and assets Matt Russell said the project to reinstate the library and office facilities for the community has made great progress in recent months. “We recog

Invercargill Police are investigating an aggravated robbery at a Dee Street business last night. Detective Senior Sergeant Stuart Harvey said two male offenders, one reportedly armed with a firearm, entered the Night’n Day store just before 9.30pm. A member of the public who went to intervene was st

The One News Colmar Brunton poll released tonight has support for Labour at 53 percent, National at 32 percent, NZ First at 2 percent, and the Greens at 5 percent, and ACT is at 5 percent. The New Conservatives and Māori parties were each on 1 percent. On those results, Labour could govern alone. La

Fonterra no longer has to accept milk as a matter of course from anyone wanting to get into dairy farming. Legislation has just been passed in Parliament amending the 20-year-old Dairy Industry Restructuring Act. It was put in place when Fonterra was formed to overcome issues around a monopoly. The

Today marks three years since the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis was detected in New Zealand. Government figures show to date, 250 properties have been infected by the disease. Most of the farms have now been cleared, with just four classed as actively infected. On 22 July 2017 Mycoplasma bovis was

The Gore District Council has launched a hub to coordinate, support and explore innovative solutions to assist businesses and the community in a post COVID-19 environment. Seen as a community partnership to navigate the District’s future, the hub has been called Te Kāpehu. This is the Maori word for

The Invercargill Licensing Trust has made a strong recovery post-Covid and as a result, re- employed 37 out of 87 staff who were recently made redundant. In a report from the chief executive Chris Ramsay, the trust’s year-to-date sales for the last three months have seen an overall drop of $7.2 mill

Businesses producing harmful products such as tyres, plastic packaging and electronics will soon have to start cleaning up their own trash. The new government policy, which was announced by Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage, aims to shift the burden of waste management from communities and