Mike Sanford

Southland will soon boast a brand-new way to bring communities together around an active lifestyle, with a mobile modular pump track currently on a freighter bound for Bluff. The 64-metre-long track will allow communities to activate under-utilised green spaces and bring the community together aroun

UPDATE 3:35pm: Highways South confirm the road is now open. A truck rollover has caused the closure of SH1 Bluff Highway at Greenpoint, south of Greenpoint Road. Related: Second Crash in Two Days Halts Traffic on State Highway 1 The accident happened around 2 pm. and no injuries have been reported.

Liam MacDonald of Invercargill was awarded the Southland Sports Car Club Champions Trophy for the tenth time at the club’s 2022/2023 prizegiving at Teretonga Park on Monday night. MacDonald won his first Club Championship in 2013 and since then has won it every year apart from 2017. In the recently

A Winton volunteer described as “the epitome of community service” has been honoured with a Community Service Award by the Oreti Community Board and Southland District Council. Guy Johnstone was presented with the award by Oreti Community Board chair Colin Smith and Southland District Deputy Mayor C

Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds launched her 2023 election campaign yesterday vowing to retain SIT and to allow it to make its own decision on whether to retain its highly successful zero fees regional initiative. Related: Te Pukenga Chief Executive Paid Out Almost $200,000 “Zero fees will go at the

Mike & About: Look who I caught up with at the library, Sharne the organiser of Matariki at Queens Park. It’s a week this Friday, looking forward to parking the park. I chat to Sharne about the voluntary advance donation to help support the event and make it sustainable longterm. This year you can h

The Government needs to come clean about workforce shortages and staff and patient safety concerns at Southland’s mental health service, Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says. “Te Whata Ora’s Southern Directorate Leadership Team has conducted a review into the impacts of workforce shortages, after loc

A must watch/listen. In episode #1999 of the Joe Rogan Experience, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an attorney, author, and 2024 presidential candidate, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion with host Joe Rogan. The conversation covered topics such as vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry, censorship, the ris