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Gore District mayor-elect Ben Bell today welcomed the decision by a District Court Judge to decline an application for a mayoral vote recount. The recount had been sought by Tracy Hicks, who lost the mayoralty in October’s election by eight votes to Team Hokonui candidate Ben Bell. At 23 years of ag

As the world of online communication continues to dominate people’s lives, the new Mayor delivered a strong message at the inaugural Invercargill City Council meeting today. Mayor Nobby Clark said in the past, he was aware that people had contacted council members at meetings to influence the democr

A big day in the wind has provided a record Tour of Southland field with its first major test of this year’s race. In the end it was rookie Zakk Patterson (Base Solutions Racing) who won a bunch sprint on the Te Anau lakefront, with overnight leader Boris Clark (Quality Foods Southland) retaining hi

Meeting of the Invercargill City Council held in the Council Chamber, First Floor, Civic Administration Building, 101 Esk Street, Invercargill on Tuesday 1 November 2022 at 3.00 pm. Read the meeting agenda here.

Mike & About: This week we had an exclusive chat with new Invercargill City Council Mayor Nobby Clark. We had a few laughs and jokes recording this with our new Mayor.

Lumsden businessman Rob Scott is the new Southland District Council Mayor. After the final count of special votes, Scott is 39 votes ahead of Southland farmer Geoffrey Young. Former Mayor Gary Tong is six votes behind Young. Scott said he is ecstatic with the result. “I’m over the moon and also humb

Invercargill City Council’s new mayor, Nobby Clark, wants his first official act to be one of thanks. The polls for the local government election 2022 closed on Saturday and preliminary results showed Clark was the clear winner of the mayoralty with 7260 votes, almost 3000 ahead of the next candidat

New Zealand’s youngest mayor is also the Gore District’s new mayor. Twenty-three-year-old tech entrepreneur Ben Bell was declared elected as Gore District Mayor today with 2,371 votes to incumbent Tracy Hicks’ 2,363 after special votes were counted. There will be five new faces when the Council meet