Mike Sanford

There is renewed hope Mataura may finally be freed of the burden of more than 10,000 tonnes of potentially toxic waste. Court action taken by the Environmental Defence Society against the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter’s owners has those in the Southland town finally feeling optimistic. The so-called

The Minister of Agriculture has unveiled policy that would allow some live cattle exports to be permitted from late next month. But it would only partially reverse a ban imposed after the Gulf Livestock 1 sank in a storm in the East China Sea. Its implementation would be dependent on the outcome of

There are 12 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, all in managed isolation. Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay says all the new cases have been transferred to a dedicated quarantine facility. There are no new cases in the community. Dr McElnay says 10 of the cases came from India o

Power company Meridian Energy offered the owners of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter savings of close to a quarter of a billion dollars to keep operating for another four years. The company’s annual meeting has been told Meridian offered Rio Tinto a package of changes to their supply contract, whic

Environment Southland has put in place some initiatives to help support Southland ratepayers with their upcoming annual rates invoices. At today’s Council meeting, Environment Southland councillors set the rates in accordance with the recently adopted Annual Plan 2020-2021, and retrospectively agree

Southland Hospital’s new $2 million MRI scanner is now in place and ready to scan its first patients today (Wednesday 30 September), Southern DHB Chief Executive Chris Fleming said today. The new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, which is manufactured in the Netherlands by Philips Healthcare

TVNZ’s latest Colmar Brunton poll has Labour on 47 percent, National on 33 percent – with Labour unable to govern alone. The Green party is on 7 percent still trying to recover from the private school funding saga and the wealth tax as a red line, while ACT on 8 percent continues climbing grabbing t

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) Cookery students and tutors volunteered their time and talents over the weekend to cook and package around 425 meals for Salvation Army’s Invercargill Food Bank. The collaboration was a result of a large amount of frozen meat recently donated. On Saturday 26th