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There will be traffic management on North Road between Bay Road and Renfrew St from Tuesday 15th – Sunday 20th November, nightworks from 6pm-6am. Traffic heading north will be diverted into the inner southbound lane and there will be no access from Wallace, Price, Elgin, Charles, Galway, Bullar and

Proud Southland company Creation Signs – MitoQ have backed the region and Tour of Southland for many years, with this year sponsoring local cyclist and Tour of Southland winner Josh Burnett. Burnett made history claiming victory as the first Southlander to win the Tour of Southland since 1994, and C

Southland mental health services are struggling with staff shortages, as the need for specialist mental health support increases. Across the country there’re vacancies for 650 full-time mental health workers. In Southland alone, our hospital desperately needs a mental health clinical psychologist, a

Cartoon of the Day: Thanks to Garrick Tremain. https://garricktremain.nz/cartoons

Cartoon of the Day: Thanks to Garrick Tremain. https://garricktremain.nz/cartoons

Opinion and fun commentary. We are three large mayoral polls in now and from the start Nobby Clark has lead all three, with Toni Biddle and Marcus Lush trailing in the last two polls. From the start Sir Tim Shadbolt has not been in the running trailing in 5th place behind Darren Ludlow. Below I […]

3 Waters Reform: The next step towards ultimate Centralism. Opinion piece by Ian Pottinger. Localism vs Centralism: Localism involves the shifting of power and decision making back to citizens and their communities. The opposite of localism is centralism and NZ is currently the most centralised coun

Update: We have added below responses from Nobby Clark (in italics) backing up a number of points raised by Peter. The named councillors Kett called out in his opinion piece, ran to Stuff’d and tried to smear him, but never offered any details correcting alleged inaccuracies in his opinion piece. Re