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Michael Laws is returning to Parliament — or at least trying to. New Zealand First has announced the former Whanganui mayor and Otago Regional Councillor will stand for the party in the Waitaki electorate at the next general election. Laws, who lives in Cromwell with his wife Cheryl, has deep ties

Invercargill's most-visited gallery exhibition is back — and this time it's asking you to show up in your pyjamas. Play, now in its fifth year, opens at the transitional public art gallery on Friday July 3 with a free family night running from 5pm to 7pm. Balloon

Friday night Get Folked returns to RIFF, Saelyn Guyton kicks off Live in the Lobby at Two Doors Down, and Waxy's launches Live Band Karaoke with Jetset from 9pm. Saturday, Pulse takes the stage at Speight's, the All Blacks take on France at 7:10pm across

Police are investigating after a person was found unresponsive at a residential address in Kew, South Invercargill on Wednesday evening. The person was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Officers spoke with others at the address overnight, and a scene guard remained in place. Police say there is no

The Southland Sharks beat the Canterbury Rams 103-98 on Saturday, a result that came down to which side could string together the bigger quarters — and it was Southland who answered that question twice. Neither team was at full strength. The Sharks were without Sam Timmins, an MVP candidate, while the

Let Kids Be Kids These School Holidays With Kidzone no longer operating, many Southland parents are wondering what there is for children to do these school holidays. For Gareth and Katie, founders of True in Nature, the answer is simple: Get Children Back Outside and Back to Basics. Their nature-based

Two Japanese players from the Saitama Panasonic Wild Knights will join the Southland Stags for the 2026 NPC season, extending a sister-city relationship between Invercargill and Kumagaya City that has been running since 1993. Hayata Taniyama and Takaya Saito, both from the Wild Knights, are heading south — adding experience and

Brendon Leitch came back from nowhere — twice — to claim back-to-back Pro-Am podiums at Spa-Francorchamps in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe series. The Invercargill driver and American co-driver Don Yount were running the #70 Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo EVO2 for Leipert Motorsport in blistering heat. Qualifying was messy — Leitch narrowly missed