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People have the chance to make arguably their most crucial vote of the year this month, with voting for the annual Beautiful Awards now open. Invercargill’s Queens Park was announced as a finalist last year, competing with four other special spots from throughout New Zealand for the Kiwis’ Choice aw

The first event organised by Skate South, a skate, BMX, Scooter and Rollerblade Jam/Competition at the Invercargill Skate Park on Saturday proved to be a great success. Event organiser, James Todd, was extremely pleased with the day saying it went “really well” with 45 entrants across the various di

One of New Zealand’s major events has been forced to cancel for the second time in two years. Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow, which was first held in 1988, traditionally attracts some 55,000 people over three days and injects more than $40million into the Southern Lakes regional economy.

Invercargill Central Limited is putting some contingency plans in place to safeguard its $165 million inner city redevelopment project. The community is also being invited to give feedback through the Invercargill City Council, after it agreed in 2020 to invest up to $46 million to support the devel

The Lumsden Heritage Trust has brought a historic steam locomotive back to Southland, where it will enhance the trust’s already impressive heritage rail display in the northern Southland town. The 19th century D Class locomotive D6 arrived on Saturday morning at Bulleid Engineering, in Winton, where

Welcome to 2022.  The year of more of the ‘Unknown.’   More staying at home possibly and more bugs floating around.    We’ve done this before and we’ll probably have to do it again. Those in business know the drill about how things will function if there is another lockdown – but for another year […

ILT Stadium Southland will host the New Zealand Gymnastics Championships 2022 as its marquee event next year. Held from July 13 to 16 it is expected to bring about 1400 competitors, and the Invercargill Gymnastics club is currently fundraising to buy a new $100,000 sprung floor – which can be used a

Emma Timmis has broken the world record for running the length of New Zealand in 21 days – two weeks faster than the previous holder. Holding a bottle of champagne at the Stirling Point finish line on Friday night, her crusade from Cape Reinga started on December 18, and was led by an entourage of [