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Uncles food trailer has only been operating a year in Southland, but already it is becoming a household name. On Thursday the Invercargill family business spent the day feeding the Ohai community, and donated all of its takings ($6026) towards police officer Steve Ioane, who is fighting Stage 4 lung

Southland Local Arese Poliko is back for the SBS Bank Southland Stags in 2022. The 22 year old loose forward is currently playing for Invercargill Blues in the Go Bus Senior Club Rugby Competition. Arese joined the Stags wider squad in 2020 fresh out of Southland Boys High School, making his debut f

Blue Sky is decommissioning one of its boilers and replacing it with a new high temperature heat pump, with the recent announcement the project has been approved to receive Government co funding in a bid to accelerate industry decarbonisation. The project is being co funded by the Government’s Inves

The annual Southland Master Plumbers Association race day takes place at Central Southland Raceway in Winton this Saturday (14 May) with 9 races scheduled from a 12.05pm start. As the name suggests the majority of race sponsors on the day are involved in the plumbing industry with many of the sponso

At this week’s Strategy and Policy Committee, councillors approved the formation of a Climate Change Sub-committee to help drive Environment Southland’s action on climate change. The sub-committee, which will meet once every two months, will consist of six councillors as well as a mana whenua repres

Police are now in a position to confirm the name of the man that died on Owaka Valley Road, Clutha on Saturday night. He was 33-year-old Rikki McCall of Owaka, Clutha District. Police would still like to speak to anyone who was in the Owaka Valley Road area between 8pm on Saturday 7 May and […]

Invercargill Ratepayers Advocacy Group member Nobby Clark believes the escalating costs of 10 council projects worth $78.35 million is “absolutely eye watering.” His submission to the Invercargill City Council’s Annual Plan (2022-2023) on behalf of the group has outlined some of the big issues he un

A dead adult Hector’s dolphin was discovered at Te Waewae Bay in Southland at the weekend. Department of Conservation Aquatic Director Elizabeth Heeg says the adult female dolphin was found by a member of the public on 7 May. DOC staff were able to retrieve the body and have sent it to Massey Univer