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It's a busy day in town. The Esk Street Food Market runs from 11am to 3pm, with the street closed to traffic and up to 20 mobile vendors serving food from around the world. Right alongside it, Men's Health Day takes over Invercargill Central from 10am

Today’s Invercargill weather is brought to you by Petsmart — Corner of Deveron & Spey Streets. It’s a milder Saturday on paper, with a Metservice high of 17° and a low of 4°. Around 7am it was about 10° at the airport under a light northerly. Expect partly cloudy

Fifty years to the day, Invercargill stopped to remember the only police officer ever killed in the line of duty in this city. A memorial plaque was unveiled today near the corner of Dee and Esk streets — the spot where Constable Peter Murphy was shot while responding to an armed

A Southland culinary scholarship programme just handed two students a career — and neither could be left out. The Scott Richardson Memorial Trust awarded two secondary school scholarships this year instead of the usual one, after spending three and a half days with applicants during the expanded student programme that preceded

Athena Kent spent years feeling the pull to learn te reo Māori and doing nothing about it. Then she signed herself up, set herself a challenge to finish Level 1, and couldn't stop. She's now preparing to complete a New Zealand Diploma in Te Reo at

A wearable arts show that started inside Enliven Southland's care homes last year is going regional — and moving to a bigger stage to handle the interest. Enliven Southland's Wearable Arts Enliven Style will be held at Bill Richardson Transport World on Thursday October 15, from 2pm

Seal, Bastille, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Level 42 are headlining the 2027 Summer Concert Tour, with Greenstone Entertainment confirming the line-up today for two outdoor shows across Auckland Anniversary Weekend in January. The tour hits Wānaka's Three Parks Outdoor Arena on Saturday January 30, then the Taupō Amphitheatre on

Great South has hired a new General Manager Strategic Projects, bringing in Brett Telfer — a regional development veteran with more than 30 years' experience across New Zealand and international markets. Telfer's CV reads like a tour of the country's more ambitious economic corners. At Callaghan