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The nominees for the 2022 Gore District Community Awards have now been announced, with 35 nominations across eight categories. Gore District Council Events Coordinator Jessica Swan said she was extremely pleased with the level of candidates this year. “The quality of the nominations this year is fan

EIS were finalists for seven projects across four categories in the 2022 Master Electrician Excellence Awards held in Auckland, last Friday. This was out of 75 entries from Master Electrician members throughout New Zealand, the most entries ever submitted.  The awards are biennial and celebrate the

It has been a huge month for fast rising Southland motor racing star, Alex Crosbie. Fifteen-year-old Crosbie, a Year 11 student at Southland Boys High School, has spent time in Kuala Lumpur as part of the Ferrari Driver Academy programme as well as experiencing success in New Zealand. Crosbie, the r

Teretonga Park in Invercargill turns 65 years old next month and club patron Barry Keen has been there and seen it all from the beginning. The Southland Sports Car Club, which operates the circuit, celebrates its own milestone with a 75th anniversary next year and in the 10 years prior to the circui

Schools cycling focussed on the deep south with both the SKODA National Schools Track Cycling Championships and Mountain Bike Championships hosted in Southland. The track over two days was staged at the SIT Zero Fees Velodrome at Invercargill with the mountain bike 30 minutes south at Bluff. North I

It’s full steam ahead for The Great Little Train Show this Labour weekend. Hosted annually by the Southland Society of Model Engineers since 1985, the club is looking forward to a full weekend of activities, after Covid-19 disruptions in recent years. President Greg Fordyce said the 2021 event had t

Environment Southland’s latest monitoring has found elevated levels of the toxic algae in the Waituna Creek at Marshall Road. Toxic algae (benthic cyanobacteria) can be recognised at rivers and streams as a green/brown slime on rocks, or dark brown/black mats at the water’s edge. Several factors can

Groundswell NZ has taken to the highways again, and this time as we watched, you couldn’t help but sing the song ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ by Twisted Sister, as they rolled through the cities. The protest was fairly low key in Invercargill, in fact, many people would’ve just thought it was farmer’s