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The Auld Mug has been well looked after over the past week during Emirates Team New Zealand’s victory parades. Thousands of fans and wellwishers thronged the streets of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin to cheer on our yachting world-beaters and the America’s Cup itself. With the team e

In 2017, on Friday 23 June, during the Puaka Matariki KUMA hui, the Suzanne Spencer Memorial Business runner up Award was presented to Awarua Synergy Background Suzanne Spencer was a mentor, advisor, supporter, advocate, and tireless supporter of numerous businesses and business people in the Māori

Sarah Dowie, MP for Invercargill, congratulates Invercargill Middle School for winning Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the prestigious Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards last night. “This award is a testament to Invercargill Middle School’s hard work and commitment to education inno

Southern motorists are urged to take extra care on the roads this morning and to the conditions as areas of black ice emerge. After yesterday’s big freeze, light rain on the roads has turned to black ice in the Otago/Southland Lakes area, and elsewhere in the district. Although the roads looks wet,

It’s been an exciting week or so for some of our younger up and coming athletes. Firstly congrats to all in involved, especially the girls of the Phoenix Synchro Swim Team who competed at the South Island Champs in Dunedin over the weekend. The Phoenix girls came home with the medals coming first! G

Huge win for the South Invercargill community – the Department of Internal Affairs has agreed to contribute a Lottery Community Facilities grant of almost a quarter of a million dollars to support the build of South Alive’s ‘Pod’ – our community centre project! What a fantastic show of support for o

An ambitious project by Rotary and the Invercargill City Council to restore the beauty of the New River Estuary by planting 22 hectares is now complete. The end of the project falls in Rotary’s centennial year and will be marked with the creation of shelters at the top of the hill. Members of the pu

Community professionals, including school teachers, guidance counsellors, parents and health practitioners from Invercargill and rural Southland communities attended workshops in schools and other locations in the province, to hear from Victoria University of Wellington lecturer Chris Bowden, who sp