Mike Sanford

The South Island Wood Chopping Championships is making a return to the south at the Southland A & P Show on March 7. The South Island meet will be a main attraction at this year’s show and Southland A & P Show president Paula Bell is thrilled to have chopping part of the 2020 event. […]

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited (FCG) Chairman John Monaghan has confirmed that he will retire as a Director of the Co-operative when his current 3-year term ends at its Annual Meeting this November. In a note to the Co-operative’s farmer-owners and unitholders, Mr Monaghan explained that his de

There will be great racing, great prizes and a great cause at the Northern Southland Trotting Club Yaldhurst Hotel Team Teal Cup Day at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill this Saturday. It is a major day for the club with three Group 3 races – the Yaldhurst Hotel Northern Southland Trotting Cup, the

The Gore District Council is seeking more information about spikes last month in the level of ammonia gas emissions from the aluminium dross stored at the former Mataura paper mill. The Council’s resource consent for the storage of the dross has a condition limiting the amount of ammonia gas dischar

SBS Bank has increased its partnership support with the Southland Loss and Grief Centre as it looks to make a difference in Southland. SBS Bank chief executive Shaun Drylie said the bank first became involved in 2018, and last year provided funding for a new support worker for elderly care services

At a full council meeting on Tuesday, Invercargill City councillors committed to $700,000 annual funding of ILT Stadium for the next three years, an increase of 57% on the previous $400,000 funding agreement. The Stadium’s owners, Southland Indoor Leisure Centre Charitable Trust, requested the incre

The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel are set to push for a fourth consecutive Finals Series appearance in the upcoming 2020 ANZ Premiership. The Steel completed an important piece of their campaign preparations alongside all ANZ Premiership teams at a pre-season tournament hosted by Te Wānanga o Rauk

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) are committed to building a pipeline of entrepreneurial-minded young people who will boost the prosperity in New Zealand through sponsorship of The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) in Southland. SIT recently signed on to continue their sponsorship