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The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) is proud to announce the inaugural celebration of the Maori New Year, Matariki, at its campus in Invercargill. This will be held as a component of the Re-O Week activities that have been planned for new and returning students in July. The event will be host

Community Trust South has today announced the appointment of Penny Simmonds as the new chair of Community Trust South. Simmonds takes over as the trust’s chair position from Margot Hishon. Lindsay Wright will remain as the deputy chair. Wright says “The board agreed that Penny has the right skills a

Blair Vining, 38, has bowel cancer and was given just weeks to live following his diagnosis in October last year. He has been ticked items off his bucket list and shared his journey with his 15,000 Facebook followers. One of those goals was starting a petition calling on the government to set up a N

The Minister of Finance received a request for an investigation under section 58 of the Charitable Trusts Act 1975 into the Community Trust of Southland, now Community Trust South concerning the actions of the trustees leading up to the resignation of John Prendergast in June 2017. In August 2018 th

On Saturday (29th June) evening another thing on Blair Vinings bucket list was ticked off, a 140,000 signature petition calling for the Government to help cancer sufferers get better support in NZ. The petition was presented to Southland-Clutha MP Hamish Walker. The function was attended by 650 gues

More than 300 people have had their say on the city block development investment proposal – have you had yours? The Invercargill City Council is currently in consultation with the community about whether it should invest up to $30million in the city block development. Council Strategy and Policy Man

This week Invercargill City Council held an extraordinary meeting to discuss and vote on the WasteNet advisory committee recommendations to dump SdE for another out of town contractor. Take our poll, the questions are: Will the way ICC councillors voted on the WasteNet recommendation to dump SdE for

Southland District Mayor Gary Tong and Gore District Mayor Tracy Hicks stand by the information they released yesterday on the WasteNet recycling tender process. They are disappointed by SdE chair Stephen O’Connor’s response today. “However, we are not going to engage in a tit-for-tat debate as we b