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The Southern Steel are heading to the ANZ Premiership Grand Final, and head coach Wendy Frew is finally allowed to smile about it. All season the Invercargill-based side has run on a game-by-game mantra, refusing to look further ahead than the next match. That discipline paid off Sunday when they

The SBS Bank Southland Stags have bolstered their squad ahead of the 2026 NPC season, signing three players including a third-generation Southland rugby family member. Gregor Rutledge joins as a product of the Rugby Southland pathway system, completing a remarkable family hat-trick. His grandfather Leicester Rutledge made 113 appearances for

Every school in Gore District will have new variable speed limit signs in place by July 1. The static signs — not electronic flashing ones — remind drivers that lower speed limits apply during school drop-off and pick-up times. They're required under the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits

The Tour of Southland turns 70 this November — and it's bringing back the legends to prove it. Australasia's longest-running multi-stage cycling event, the SBS Bank Tour of Southland, will hold its 70th edition from November 1 to 7, less than a year after the rescheduled 69th

Invercargill Young Professionals has a new president, and she wants young people to stop quietly leaving Southland. Breea Scully has been appointed president of Invercargill Young Professionals (IYP), with the committee's focus squarely on making the region somewhere people actually want to stay. "There is a lot

Three hundred and twenty refurbished laptops are heading to Southland schools and youth organisations, courtesy of a deal between Great South, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and a handful of local groups. MBIE is donating retired devices from its own fleet. The laptops will be split across the

The Southland Stags are heading bush this July, visiting eight rural clubs across the province in a single day. The annual Rural Roadie runs on Tuesday July 7, with the Stags squad splitting into four groups to cover ground from Drummond to Tokanui. The initiative is free to attend and

Cormac Buchanan finished 18th at the Autodrom Brno circuit in Czechia on Sunday, but he's not dwelling on it. He can't — the next race is already here. The Southland teenager had a rough weekend in the Moto3 World Championship from the start. Set-up problems limited his