News Desk

Saturday's the marquee night — Craig Adams headlines the Southland leg of the Get Your Country On Tour at the Invercargill Workingmen's Club with Denver and Beyond, plus support from The Rustlers. Tickets $25 at the Club. Sunday is Father's Day — kick off with Ascot

Nearly 11,000 cheese rolls. That's what it cost to get a group of Year 7 and 8 boys from Southland Boys' High School to the Zespri AIMS Games in Tauranga this September. Nine hundred dozen, if you're counting by the box. About ten per

Sean Withy will captain the SBS Bank Southland Stags when they travel north to face Counties Manukau in Pukekohe on Sunday. Kick-off at Navigation Homes Stadium is 2.05pm on Sunday September 6. The 23-man squad named for the match is: 1. Jack Barrett, 2. Jayden Henderson, 3. Paula Latu,

Part of Queens Park remains closed after yesterday's strong winds caused damage to the area around the Band Rotunda. Invercargill City Council has shut Coronation Avenue between the Peter Pan statue and the Band Rotunda, as well as the pathway from the Duck Pond Bridge to the Band

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