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Ray Harper has one, Sir Tim Shadbolt has one and now Alan Dennis has his name on a stand in the ILT Stadium Southland. Reflecting on his surprise this week when stadium board members decided to name the ILT stand after him, Alan said being involved since its inception has been a real labour of […]

Almost 60 Invercargill career firefighters will be involved in nationwide strikes tomorrow morning between 11am and 12pm, for the first time in New Zealand history. FENZ Invercargill station manager Aaron Ramsey said this was unprecedented and a decision that has not been taken lightly. “We have tak

New Zealanders have said Stop Three Waters, with 68,661 submissions lodged at StopThreeWaters.nz by 65,091 unique users on the Government’s Water Services Entities Bill by midnight last Friday. Of those 8,634 people indicated they’d like to make an oral submission. Late Friday afternoon, staff from

The numbers of people using Splash Palace in Invercargill has gone down almost 200,000 over the past five years. A report to the Infrastructure Services Committee today showed that numbers have declined in 2021-22 to just 250,000, compared to 400,000+ pre Covid. The facility was closed through June

The new Ascot Park Racecourse Sunday Market in Invercargill starts this Sunday (31 July) at the racecourse in Racecourse Road, Invercargill. Organisers have attracted a range of stallholders with products ranging from kids clothes, wheat bags, baby items, soaps, sewing, printed mugs, Pounamu Necklac

Groundswell’s protest against Three Waters at the LGNZ annual conference in Palmerston North didn’t make news headlines last week. Mandeville-based representative Logan Evans flew to the North Island to front the protest, and was joined by Voices For Freedom members, waiting for Local Government New

It’s here and open, stage 1 at least of Invercargill Central. Today’s opening marks a significant milestone in the multi, multi million dollar project that will transform the centre of down town Invers. To set the scene, picture lots of feverish activity by the many retailers that opened their doors

They’ve never seen anything like this before in Invercargill. An entire city block within the city centre completely redeveloped with a state-of-the art mall. Even Invercargill Central Ltd project director Geoff Cotton told special guests at the walkthrough on Wednesday night, that undertaking a dev