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The Art for Leisure programme at SIT Gore draws students from as far as Cromwell and Alexandra — and once they join, they tend to stay. Here's why.

Wild venison, Wagyu beef, brie and poached pears — BurgerFuel's $23 Wild & Wagyu lands 3 November, with $1 per burger going to the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation.

Applications close November 6. Community groups, iwi and not-for-profits in Southland can apply for $500-$5,000 to fund one-off preparedness projects.

A couple who drove the victim home from Queens Park on 2 October could hold key information — police need to find them.

Guy Fawkes is less than four weeks away — and NZ First says retail sales, manufacture and imports would all stop, while approved public displays carry on.

Seymour says NZ pays over $1 million an hour in interest on govt debt — ACT's plan aims to wipe $12.4b of it in four years, no new taxes.

PowerNet is putting $210,000 into its St John partnership over the next three years, keeping free mental health training running across Southland and neighbouring regions while shoring up community access to defibrillators. The electricity lines company has renewed its sponsorship of St John for another three-year term. The money

Five Southland landmarks are going pink this month, and for the first time, ILT Stadium is joining them. The Gore Brown Trout Sculpture, Invercargill's Band Rotunda, Feldwick Street Gates and Gala Street Fountain are all part of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ's Global Illuminations campaign through October