Mike Sanford

Seal, Bastille, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Level 42 are headlining the 2027 Summer Concert Tour, with Greenstone Entertainment confirming the line-up today for two outdoor shows across Auckland Anniversary Weekend in January. The tour hits Wānaka's Three Parks Outdoor Arena on Saturday January 30, then the Taupō Amphitheatre on

Great South has hired a new General Manager Strategic Projects, bringing in Brett Telfer — a regional development veteran with more than 30 years' experience across New Zealand and international markets. Telfer's CV reads like a tour of the country's more ambitious economic corners. At Callaghan

Police can now name the woman who died following a crash in Invercargill on 18 September. She was 52-year-old Jacqueline Mary Jones, from North Taieri. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones at this difficult time. Police's enquiries into the circumstances of the crash remain ongoing.

An Invercargill shopper is $62,977 richer after a Second Division Lotto ticket sold at Four Square Newfield turned up a winner in Saturday night's draw. The local result was one of four Second Division prizes from draw 2622 on Saturday September 19. The other winning tickets were

UPDATED: 7:30pm Highway now open. 5:25pm A car and freight train have collided on State Highway 1 near Invercargill. The sole occupant of the vehicle died at the scene. The crash happened at about 1.20pm Friday near the intersection of East Road and Mill Road South. The

Bill Donaldson has been collecting records of Southland cricket matches since before most people were born. On Thursday he collected something else — a King's Service Medal, presented at the Civic Theatre by Invercargill Mayor Tom Campbell on behalf of King Charles. Donaldson, known formally as William Alexander Donaldson

Dialysis patients at Southland Hospital now have tablets and headphones to get them through five-hour treatment sessions, funded by the Invercargill Licensing Trust. The ILT donated five tablets and five headphone sets to the hospital's dialysis unit — a ward where patients are hooked up to machines for hours

More than 38,000 Southland and West Otago power users will see a discount on their electricity bills this spring, with The Power Company Ltd handing back $11.7 million through its annual price discount programme. Residential customers on the TPCL network get 2.3 cents back for every kilowatt-hour