Mike Sanford

Watch the time lapse video of the old Southland Times building.The facade is being retained at a cost of $1.3m.   Located on the site with planned opening early 2022 will be Farmers department store, Starbucks, some carparks and a limited number of retail stores with more opening later 2022.more ope

More than 1.7 million pork meals have been delivered to nearly 570,000 people in need under the New Zealand Government’s food bank initiative. Independent butchers were not allowed to open fully for retail customers under the COVID-19 Alert Level 4 and 3 restrictions, resulting in a surplus of up to

The Transport Agency is attempting to keep State Highway 8 into the Otago town of Cromwell open overnight, although the slope above the road remains unstable. The highway, near the intersection with State Highway 8B at the Deadman’s Point Bridge, has been reduced to one lane for much of the day due

This time-lapse video shows the incredible progress of the CBD demolition in Invercargill over the last 2 months. As you will see most of the buildings were rotting due to years of neglect from previous owners. Located on the site with planned opening early 2022 will be Farmers department store, Sta

Southern Institute of Technology’s (SIT) agricultural faculty Telford has a long-held tradition of running Taster Camps for students thinking of training there for a career in agriculture. Due to unprecedented job losses through the Covid-19 lockdown, Telford is running a series of three-day Taster

The government has launched a plan to boost primary sector export earnings by $44 billion over the next decade. It said the plan was focused on unlocking greater value for a sector which is vital to New Zealand’s economic recovery post Covid-19. The report is a follow up to a strategy unveiled in De

Towering macrocarpas older than most residents, a grand gateway, and a splendid avenue. Give this description to any Invercargill resident, and most will instantly be able to tell you: you’re describing Feldwick Gates – the entranceway to our award-winning Queens Park. At a meeting of Invercargill C

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched an investigation in relation to donations made to the Labour Party in 2017. In a statement, the SFO said it was conducting four investigations in relation to electoral funding, and a fifth was now before the courts. “We consider that making the current ann