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Cancer Society calls on supporters to stay the course and Relay Your Way Last week, the Cancer Society of New Zealand announces an alternative to traditional Relay For Life events. It comes after Covid forced the cancellation of the organisation’s iconic street collection on Daffodil Day in August.

The number of children being home schooled has increased 40 percent in the South since Covid-19 hit, as parents move to take more control of their education. The Ministry of Education has confirmed there have been significantly more applications for home education compared to 2019. Invercargill pare

With the current Orange Alert Level, customers are required to have a Vaccine Pass (except the bottle stores). As such, a high number of group bookings have been cancelled due to not all potential customers in the group having been vaccinated. In a report to the board last Thursday (January 27), chi

The Lumsden Heritage Trust has overseen another challenging recovery operation as it builds its impressive historic railways collection. The trust’s “A team” of contractors carefully hauled the wreckage of three JC Class sheep wagons up a steep gully near Hyde, in Central Otago, on Friday 28 January

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