Mike Sanford

Processing of the Gore District Council’s resource consent application to build a bridge across the Mataura River, as part of its Gore Water Treatment Plant Upgrade, is currently on hold. The Council has applied for land use consents from Environment Southland and itself, as the regulating authority

The government massively underestimated the number of people who would be returning to New Zealand – and the cost of keeping them in managed isolation, according to documents released today. Hundreds of documents related to the government’s pandemic response were released this morning. They included

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