Kids & Family

It’s almost spring and there’s going to be a celebration to get the season off to a festive start during September. The inaugural Spring Festival is all about three weeks of outdoor fun and recreation revolving around a giant snow globe and a temporary ice skating rink at the Gala Street reserve. Fo

Demolition has started on the old All Lay Carpets & Purdue Bros buildings, on the corner of Nith and Tyne Streets to make way for the new Trampoline Park. Co Operator & head bouncer Robyn Smart says their goal is to be open mid November, just in time for Summer and the school holidays. Original […]

Sport Southland and ILT Stadium Southland are calling on Southlanders to step up to a new challenge; with the inaugural Stadium Step Up set to burst into action on Sunday 6 August. The event will see participants take on an indoor course that will traverse the stairs, corridors and courts covering m

The ILT Kidzone will go on.  This despite thieves stealing one of the main features of the annual school holiday event. Organisers say the Spider Web Experience unit was stolen along with the vehicle that tows it. The vehicle and trailer unit was subsequently found crashed and badly damaged. A spoke

Do you have a wannabe Southland basketball player at home during the July school holidays – if so the Southland Basketball Association’s (SBA) Shooters Holiday Basketball Programme might be just the ticket. SBA development officer Dan Peck who runs the programme, along with players and coaches from

Retiring at the age of five may seem premature, but not when you’ve spent most of your life producing dozens of New Zealand Police’s finest canine recruits. After giving birth to her fourth and final litter of potential canine crimefighters a few weeks ago, New Zealand Police-bred Dallas is ready to

Invercargill is gearing up for a Matariki Festival in the heart of Invercargill’s City Centre on Saturday 1 July. City Centre Co-ordinator Kari Graber said Esk Street Mall will be closed to traffic and transformed for the day to host the Festival, which will incorporate a number of traditional Maori

Thanks to a whatsoninvers.nz fan Andrea Richmond for the video of the Queenstown Winter Festival fireworks. https://www.facebook.com/Andrea.Ashley.Richmond/videos/10212727648401638/