Paige Turner

The resource consent for the Datagrid Hyperscale Data Centre at Makarewa will not be reviewed. An independent hearing commissioner made that call on September 4, rejecting a request from the Southland Sustainable Resources Coalition to scrutinise the consent conditions under section 128 of the Resource Management Act. SSRC's

Environment Southland is using emergency powers to mechanically open Waituna Lagoon to the sea, after water levels stayed dangerously high for weeks. The lagoon has sat above 2.3 metres for the past five days and above 2.2 metres since late July. That sustained high water is hitting nearby

Southlanders who want to buy a beast from a local farmer and put it in the freezer could soon have an easier time doing it, if proposed rule changes get the go-ahead. The Government is consulting on reforms to homekill rules — some of which haven't been touched in

Southland farmers may soon be able to pull gravel from rivers and their own properties without going through a resource consent process, under proposals announced by National at the South Island Election Conference. Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds has backed the plans, saying gravel build-up in local rivers is already a

While house prices fell across most of New Zealand over the past year, Invercargill went the other way — up 8.2 percent, outpacing Queenstown, Christchurch, and almost everywhere else. The average Invercargill home now sits just shy of $550,000. Nationally, values dropped 1.2 percent over the same period.

Two SIT hairdressing students have made the national top 10 in one of New Zealand's most prestigious bridal hair competitions — and they've only been at this for 18 months. Haylee Clark and Holly Wolf, both second-year students at the Southern Institute of Technology, were announced as

Ian Pottinger called the mayor's answer a "soliloquy". Tom Campbell called his behaviour "rude". Another Tuesday, another clash at Invercargill City Council. The six-term councillor clashed with Mayor Campbell during a full council meeting on Tuesday — the third time Pottinger has butted heads with

Southlanders are about to get faster access to specialist care, cancer treatment, and elective surgery after the new Dunedin Hospital outpatient building was officially opened on Friday. The $440 million, five-storey facility is the first completed stage of the long-delayed Dunedin Hospital rebuild — a project that has spent years grinding