Business

Two Southern Institute of Technology students have landed apprenticeships with Stabicraft after impressing during a pilot work experience programme launched last year. Matthew Brown and Lily Crowley spent eight weeks at the iconic Southland boat-building company, working one day a week across different divisions including cutting and pressing, welding, finishing,

The manager of Bombay Palace Invercargill has opened a new Italian restaurant in South City on Sunday. Owner/operator Anil Kumar Prasad has been running home deliveries from the restaurant since April 12, but now it's time to open the doors to the public. Invercargill Mayor Tom Campbell

Nan's Kai is an exciting new name but with old style values in the Invercargill takeaway market. Based in the former Dome Street Takeaways and Salt & Batter building at 111 Dome Street, Invercargill, the business ethos is 'food made with love' while the journey of

A Southland roofing company that helped revolutionise how New Zealand builds is celebrating 90 years in business. Marshall Industries, originally established as Owen Marshall Plumbing Ltd in 1938, has become a household name across Southland and Otago while pioneering innovations that changed the construction industry nationwide. The Invercargill-based company made

Invercargill timber processor Niagara Sawmilling Company has launched a $115 million expansion that will more than double its production capacity and create new jobs for the region. The expansion includes construction of a new sawmill at the company's Kennington site, currently being built in Canada and due to

An Australian company is proposing a $3 billion plant near Invercargill that would turn Southland's brown coal reserves into fertiliser. Victorian Hydrogen wants to build the facility 30km northeast of the city, processing lignite into 1.5 million tonnes of urea fertiliser annually. The project could make New

Older New Zealanders are driving a major economic shift, contributing nearly $9 billion annually through paid work alone, according to a new study. The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research found people aged 65 and over now make up a larger share of the workforce than at any point since

Banking services for thousands of Kiwibank and Westpac customers have been restored after widespread outages disrupted online and mobile banking across New Zealand on Wednesday afternoon. Both banks confirmed their internet banking platforms were back online by 3pm, following technical problems that left customers unable to access their accounts for