Mike Sanford

Business start-ups and eagle-eyed investors rejoice: Southland is set to become your playground. COIN South has just launched and will be Southland’s go-to when it comes to start-ups. Whether you’re the one with the next big idea or the person wanting to support new business growth in the south, COI

Saturday nights Lotto The Strike Must Be Won jackpot of $1 million was not won by a single ticket and therefore rolled down to Division 2, where it was shared by 163 players. Winton is listed as a winning ticket sale and Southland on the My Lotto app also. 163 Strike players from around the […]

A front, preceded by gale westerlies, and followed by gale southwesterlies is forecast to move north across the lower South Island this (Sunday) afternoon. Gales west to southwest winds may become severe in exposed parts of coastal Southland including Stewart Island, Clutha and Dunedin and a Watch i

The body of a man has tonight been recovered from Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown. Formal identification of the body is still to be completed but Police believe it is that of 46-year-old Matthew Charles Duncan, of Bluff. Mr Duncan went missing from a cabin boat, Sundance 2, on Lake Wakatipu on Sunday 30 J

Isobel Pearson has been honoured with a Southland District Council/Otautau Community Board award in recognition of her 41 years of excellent service to her community. As caretaker/cleaner of Otautau’s public facilities over four decades she set and maintained a very high standard, which made a lasti

This week has signalled the start of an exciting new chapter in our region’s development with Great South established to lead Southland into the future. In 2015 it was identified that in order to encourage Southland’s future prosperity a renewed focus was needed to grow Southland’s culture and lifes

Police are seeking information from members of the public who witnessed a man’s erratic driving in the Invercargill city centre earlier today. At approximately 12pm today, Friday 5 July, Police were alerted to a man, who was wanted to arrest, driving a Gold Ford Falcon registration BWR478 erraticall

The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) is proud to announce the inaugural celebration of the Maori New Year, Matariki, at its campus in Invercargill. This will be held as a component of the Re-O Week activities that have been planned for new and returning students in July. The event will be host