Mike Sanford

Southland Police are appealing for information to help identify a man seen near a vehicle shortly before it was stolen. The Toyota Hilux, registration AZQ526, was stolen from Cairnard Road, Fairlight at about 11am on Sunday 25 March. It has a wooden dog box and a silver tool box bolted to the deck.

The Invercargill City Council is working with multiple agencies to address the issue of asbestos discovered at Ocean Beach, Bluff. Following tests by Public Health South, it has been determined that coastal erosion has caused what could be a former landfill site to spill asbestos onto the foreshore

A search and rescue operation is underway in Fiordland National Park after a 69-year-old man was reported missing this morning. Police were called at 10.42am by a man who said he had become separated from his hunting partner, and had not seen him since yesterday morning. The missing man is an experi

Para cycling head performance coach Stu MacDonald has labelled Southland athlete Hannah Pascoe’s international debut as one of the highlights of New Zealand’s track world championship campaign. Blind athlete Hannah Pascoe and sighted pilot Nina Wollaston only came together as a tandem combination la

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has determined that all cattle on properties infected with the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis will be culled, and will be working with farmers to do that from today. “The depopulation of entire herds on all 28 Infected Properties (IPs) in New Zealand is a c

The race for the 2018 Galbraith Shield title is about to get underway as six teams look to be crowned Southland premier club rugby champions. We take a look at how each of the teams in the Go Bus Senior Rugby teams are shaping up before the first game kicks-off on March 27. Who are […]

A good day was being had by all! On Sunday March 25th at Teretonga Park the East Invercargill Rotary club hosted Drive A Dream activities. Competition cars, tractors, vintage cars, a concrete mixer – Rotary Drive A Dream Day at Teretonga Park today. Photos thanks to Quinton Taylor Thanks to all our

Farmers affected by the PGG Wrightson seeds mix-up will have the opportunity to ask questions to senior management at a public meeting hosted by Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker next week. The public meeting is being held at the James Cumming Wing on April 6, at 11.30am.  “More than 500 farmers hav