Mike Sanford

OPINION: The race for the keys to the Invercargill mayoral office and car (and a big, expensive, carbon dioxide spewing, not-particularly safe in comparison to other cars, beast of a gangsta-wagon it is) is starting to generate some interest. The incumbent, newly-knighted Sir Timothy Shadbolt, once

OPINION: We have all seen the proposal for this city centre development potentially one of the biggest retail developments of an established city centre in New Zealand and this is all happening here in Southland thanks to HWCP. The project is going to include 1000 covered car parks, retail shops, me

In 2018 the dream of extending Koha Kai’s teaching programme, and taking the people who work with them still further into the community began to be realized, thanks to the huge Fundraising efforts for the Fight For Kidz corporate boxing event. “It was our pleasure and honour to work with the organis

An outbreak of measles in Canterbury has prompted huge demand for vaccinations, but what is the disease and how serious is it really? This Q&A explainer lays out the facts … What is measles? Measles is one of the most infectious contagious disease known, infecting children as well as adults via coug

The What’s On Invers lotto syndicate won $59 on Strike, maybe it was adding an extra line of Strike that won? Powerball was not struck this evening and has rolled over to Saturday night, where the jackpot will be $8 million. Meanwhile, Strike Four also rolled over tonight and will be $300,000 on Sat

Environment Southland’s latest monitoring has found elevated levels of the toxic algae in the Aparima River at Thornbury and the Oreti River at Winton Bridge. Environment Southland science strategy and investigations manager Dr Elaine Moriarty advised that there are already alerts in place for sever

Invercargill Deputy Mayor Becs Amundsen announced today she is running for the city mayoralty. The city was on the cusp of significant change and she believed she was the right person to lead it through its transformation, she said. Amundsen, 41, said she had the passion, commitment and experience t

Police are investigating a crash involving which occurred on Tiwai Road, around midnight last night. It is understood that this was a single vehicle car crash. The driver of the vehicle died at the scene. The passenger was taken to hospital in a critical condition, but is now in a moderate, stable c