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Invercargill City Council has advised that the beach entrance off Dunns Road will be temporarily closed to vehicles this Friday morning for a sand clean-up operation. Contractors will close the entranceway from the car park to the beach between 7am and 12pm. While the car park will remain open to

Property owners across the Gore District will soon receive updated rating valuations in the post, with new figures revealing steady overall residential values, a softer rural market, and continued industrial strength. Prepared for Gore District Council by Quotable Value (QV), the updated values cover 6,993 properties and are based

Several old macrocarpa trees on two arterial roads in Invercargill will probably be chopped down after the recent storm highlighted their risk to human life. The inaugural meeting of the new Infrastructure and Growth Committee decided today that the trees on the corner of Elles Road and Tay Street, and

A suspicious fire overnight at Invercargill’s Queens Park has left four contractor trucks destroyed and raised concerns over the potential impact on ongoing storm recovery work. The fire broke out around 12.20am in the yard of the Queens Park office, where the vehicles belonging to an arborist contractor

In a major shift for local government funding, the New Zealand Government has confirmed plans to restrict annual council rate increases to between 2% and 4% per capita. The move aims to protect what the Government calls local government's “social licence” while addressing concerns over rising household costs

A new company has been appointed to manage Stewart Island's electricity network for the next year, as the region moves toward a more modern and sustainable power system. NZ Energy has been awarded a short-term contract to manage the Stewart Island Electricity Supply Authority (SIESA), which oversees the

Invercargill City Council is beginning to understand the full financial toll of the severe weather event that struck Southland on 23 October, triggering a local state of emergency. During a recent full Council meeting, elected members were presented with a preliminary report outlining an estimated $2.4 million in damage

Council reviews first performance report for 2025/2026 Work on key Invercargill City Council infrastructure projects is tracking well, its Finance and Policy Committee has heard. The committee met for the first time following local government elections in October, with a report on the first quarter of the financial year