The Invercargill City Council will contribute a total of $40.5 million in the city block development, in recognition of the community wellbeing outcomes the project offers. Councillors approved its funding contribution at an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, 8 June, after a series of funding annou

While it was cold outside, freezing actually, the self styled champion of the regions Shane Jones brought warmth, some laughter and a big bag of money for various southern organisations and businesses. One of the big handouts is for  stop-bank upgrade work for our rivers. This follows on from the ca

This time-lapse video shows the incredible progress of the CBD demolition in Invercargill over the last 2 months. As you will see most of the buildings were rotting due to years of neglect from previous owners. Located on the site with planned opening early 2022 will be Farmers department store, Sta

A newly formed Invercargill home based business is off to a roaring start. Curvy Rentals NZ is the creation of Sammi Smith and is already attracting nationwide attention. Curvy rentals hires out dresses for plus sized women who want something for a special occasion but don’t want pay for something t

From trucks to trampolines – the HW Richardson Group just keeps on growing. The Jump ’N’ Fun Indoor Trampoline Park has a new owner/operator but it will be business as usual until at least the school holidays are over. Landlords HWR has taken over the assets from former operators John and Robyn Smar

A day after the announcement that $10 million of Government money was heading south for City Block, developer Scott O’Donnell is a happy man. “We had no expectation of any money, but any money makes it easier,” he said. With the Invercargill City Council also agreeing this week to invest $46 million

The City Block development is back on track with the Invercargill City Council agreeing to go ahead with the $46 million investment. The public has been consulted and council deliberated over the 462 submissions on Tuesday last week, following a hearing on June 17. More than 60% of the community was

COIN South’s Start It course is expected to turn bright ideas in the South into reality. The brand-new free course launched on Monday 29 June with over 50 participants signing up to the first cohort of the online course. The first meet up on Monday morning at the COIN South hub was exciting for Lou