Community

Invercargill’s local community hero Janice Lee founder of Kohi Kai is a finalist in the New Zealander of the Year awards for the Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero of the Year award section. whatsoninvers.nz asked janice for a comment…..How am I feeling…. bewildered and incredibly honoured, and gratefu

Invercargill’s Lisa-Maree Fleck has been appointed manager of the ILT Foundation. Starting on January 22, Fleck replaces Jackie Flutey, who will lead the Community Trust of Southland as its general manager from February. Managing editor of the Southland Express for the past 10 and a half years, Flec

A hugely popular Pacific Island Sports Tournament was held earlier this year, with the help of Sport Southland, and brought together teams across a range of ages to play a variety of sports. When Aiga and Tulua noticed younger people starting to come to the youth group, they realised a separate grou

Southland Hospital Children’s Services received a massive $87,829 from the Countdown Kids Hospital Appeal on Thursday 7 December, following a three-month fundraising effort from Countdown staff, customers and suppliers around the country. The funds were handed over Thursday 7 December Morning during

The Cook family of Kaden, Riley, Declan, Fletcher and Addisyn shows the new generation are keyed into Christmas giving. They groceries the brought to McKnight and Brown for the Spirit Army Christmas hamper weren’t simply taken from the pantry at home, they had to earn them as Kaden explains: (Video

Move over Air New Zealand, the Big Angry Fish Boys Milan and Nathan have made their own ‘BIG’ safety video in time for the busy summer boating season. The light-hearted video follows the familiar inflight safety format, but has a serious message for boaties to play it safe on the water. The tongue-i

Freeze! NZ Police’s most entertaining recruitment video, yet! Take the first step and visit www.newcops.co.nz

One hundred people throughout Southland will enjoy a brighter Christmas this year, as Christmas boxes packed full of gifts will be packed at City Impact Church Invercargill today (Saturday 25th) to be delivered to them in early December. The outreach, which has occurred annually at City Impact Churc