Mike Sanford

Southland is getting a critical minerals and green hydrogen plant, backed by $15 million in government funding. Christchurch-based Aspiring Materials has secured the Regional Infrastructure Fund allocation to build a $31 million commercial facility in the region — its first at full commercial scale, following a successful pilot plant in Christchurch.

One person is in critical care in hospital after a crash between a stock truck and a station wagon at a rural Southland intersection on Monday. The collision happened at the intersection of Grove Bush Road and Rakahoka Hedgehope Road, near Grove Bush, at around 5:20pm on August 10.

Two hundred and fifty student projects. Forty years. And for the first time, the sponsors are competing too. The NZAS Southland Science and Technology Fair opens to the public this Wednesday, marking four decades of the region's biggest student science event. Running August 11 to 14 at a

Free local TV is quietly winning back New Zealanders — and Netflix is paying the price. New research from NZ On Air shows total TV reach, combining linear broadcast and local on-demand platforms, has edged out global video sharing platforms like YouTube and TikTok as the most-used type of media across

Southland District Council is spending its $1 million Milford Sound windfall on public toilets. Council agreed at its meeting on Wednesday to direct the money — received from selling its two percent shareholding in Milford Sound Tourism Limited — toward renewing and upgrading public toilets along the main tourist route through Southland

A Nightcaps music teacher's songs, written nearly two decades ago and largely sitting in a drawer, are now animated videos watched by children across the country — thanks to a collaboration with SIT's screen arts programme in Invercargill. Nicky Fryer, a teacher aide and music teacher at

Three months out from the election, the government is clinging to a two-seat majority — and a new party just made things considerably more complicated. The latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll has the Opportunity Party breaking five percent in a mainstream public poll for the first time, landing on 6.1

Two of New Zealand's rarest birds have just got a very wealthy support crew. The kākāpō and the Chatham Island tāiko have been named in the Phoenix Species Project — a $200 million global initiative backed by Re:wild, the Bezos Earth Fund, Leonardo DiCaprio, and a handful of