Community

Invercargill’s Santa Parade just gets better every year, and organisers are busy getting ready for a family gala afternoon to follow the main event. Event manager Alice Pottinger said the original 3km circuit around the city would be back with floats and entertainers, so that all the groups that mis

Councils around the country were once responsible for traffic enforcement, and Invercargill’s Glenn Cockroft has a museum filled with much of the old memorabilia. (Watch the full video of Mike & About tour of this incredible place). Traffic patrol cars, the first fitted telephones, uniforms, badges,

Job losses are on the cards at SIT, as the Government comes clean on how it proposes to balance the books of its embattled industry training mega-merger Te Pukenga, Invercargill MP and National’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Penny Simmonds says. “Te Pukenga, which now runs the country’s polytechn

The Hawthorndale Care Village began on site today (Friday 21st October) with a rather “BIG” and special start to the construction process. Transport World Director, Joc O’Donnell had kindly donated the 15-tonne CAT digger, used at their Dig This Experience based in Invercargill as an auction item al

Following the retirement as Trustee of Mata Cherrington, Bill Moran has been appointed as the new Chair of Community Trust South.  Mata Cherrington resigned as a Trustee in order to pursue her new role as the Interim Regional Director for Te Aka Whai Ora the Māori Health Authority. Mata Cherrington

Teretonga Park in Invercargill turns 65 years old next month and club patron Barry Keen has been there and seen it all from the beginning. The Southland Sports Car Club, which operates the circuit, celebrates its own milestone with a 75th anniversary next year and in the 10 years prior to the circui

It’s full steam ahead for The Great Little Train Show this Labour weekend. Hosted annually by the Southland Society of Model Engineers since 1985, the club is looking forward to a full weekend of activities, after Covid-19 disruptions in recent years. President Greg Fordyce said the 2021 event had t

The new president of the Invercargill Licensing Trust board, Paddy O’Brien, told the new team on Wednesday he promised to give 100% and expected other elected members to as well. Angela Newell was re-elected vice-president, and the board heard from chief executive Chris Ramsay, who reported a strong