Paige Turner

Parts of Southland's roading network are approaching a "tipping point", and the district mayor has put that warning in writing to the country's transport agency. Southand District Mayor Rob Scott has written a pointed letter to NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) chair Simon Bridges, questioning

Southland District Council will submit a merger proposal for local government reform — even though most of the people it asked said not to. Councillors voted on Wednesday to back a Head Start proposal for two councils to govern the region: a Southland-Gore unitary council and an Invercargill unitary council. The

Someone keeps turning Invercargill's Gala St fountain into a bubble bath — and it's costing ratepayers more than $5000 a year to clean up. The soap suds prank, a recurring nuisance at the city centre fountain, requires staff to neutralise the foam with vinegar around 50 times

More than 30,000 New Zealanders with type 2 diabetes will get easier access to four blood sugar medicines from September 1, after Pharmac widened its funding criteria. The medicines — empagliflozin, empagliflozin with metformin, liraglutide and dulaglutide — will now be funded for anyone with type 2 diabetes whose blood sugar

CareerFest Southland is already underway, and if you missed the school sessions today, there's still time to get along tonight. The free public session runs from 5pm to 7pm this evening at ILT Stadium Southland, with a second day on Friday from 9:45am to 1pm. Schools have

Gore District Council is staying in the room on local government reform — but making clear it hasn't agreed to anything yet. Following an extraordinary council meeting today, Gore agreed to keep exploring reform proposals from both Invercargill City Council and Southland District Council under the Government's

Nearly 500 New Zealand Army Reserve Force soldiers and 40 Australian Army Reservists have wrapped up a major warfighting exercise across Southland, culminating in a dawn attack near Waikaia. Exercise Tauwharenīkau — the Army's premier Reserve Force warfighting exercise — saw troops flown into Invercargill by C-130J Hercules before being

Te Anau Airport Manapōuri has been losing money since Southland District Council bought it in 2002. Whether that changes soon depends on what comes out of an RFP process that closed on June 12. The six-week request for proposals, managed by development agency Great South, sought private capital and expertise