Mike Sanford

The Gore District Council plans to significantly improve the quality of wastewater being discharged into the Mataura River over the next 30 years. The long term strategy for wastewater treatment in Gore and Mataura was revealed this week, as the Council works towards lodging applications to renew it

Aparima College student Dom Riddle has taken out first prize in the Southland Young Enterprise of the Year Awards, among a collection of other achievements. Celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship, the YES Awards are the culmination of a year long competition, which challenges participating scho

A service that provides community based rehabilitation helping Southlanders to recover and make the transition back to their daily lives after hospitalisation is celebrating not only its fifth birthday, but the benefits of an increase in staffing. This means there is now no waiting list, and Southla

The benefits of diversification were highlighted in a COVID-19 affected year, shareholders of South Port New Zealand Limited (South Port) were told at the Company’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting at Bluff today. South Port incurred only a 3.6% decline in net profit at $9.43 million, from the previous

The Game Animal Council (GAC), the NZ Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) and Hunters for Conservation are providing hunters with the opportunity to choose either the kārearea/NZ falcon or the whio as their ‘champion’ bird to back in the upcoming Bird of the Year competition. “In 2019, hunters got behin

It’s business as usual for the primary sector with ministerial portfolios remaining relatively unchanged but from a few tweaks. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the new Cabinet today. Damien O’Connor has kept his job as Minister of Agriculture, one he held last term, and picks up Trade and Ex

One of the biggest winners of today’s Cabinet announcement is newly-appointed Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta – not only the first woman, but also the first Māori woman, to ever hold the role. It is not the first time she’s trailblazed for Māori wāhine either – last Parliamentary term she was

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed her new Cabinet line-up and says it is focused on Covid-19 recovery. Ardern says experienced ministers will hold key economic recovery and ongoing Covid response portfolios. “The next three years will be very challenging for New Zealand. With the global out