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Police have arrested a further two men, aged 18 and 23, in relation to two ram raids on Monday 15 August, one on Dee Street and the other business Found My Way on Windsor Street. These arrests are in addition to an 18-year-old taken into custody last week. Both men are due to appear in […]

Revitalisation in Manapouri is scheduled to go ahead early September 2022. The project includes replacement of the Manapouri boat ramp and adjacent gabion wall, a new jetty, an upgrade of View Street car park and Otta seal application on Fraser’s Beach Road. Southland District Council project manage

After a hiatus of more than two years, Southern Institute of Technology (SIT), in collaboration with Pacific Island Advisory & Charitable Trust (PIACT), has brought their Pasifika Open Night back, providing the local Pasifika community with an event to inform them on education and training opportuni

After a two-year Covid-enforced break, the Waihopai Rowing Club’s Corpor8 event is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The popular corporate rowing event, supported by iHire and a range of other sponsors, is the Oreti River-based club’s major fundraising effort for the year. Corpor8 committee chair Ga

The Government’s draft Better Work Action Plan for the tourism workforce released earlier this month is a shining example of this Government’s inability to prioritise the real issues which face many businesses in my Southland electorate, says local MP for Southland, Joseph Mooney. “Everywhere I go,

The new Let’s Go Invercargill ticket group has been brought about to support some of the new candidates and help raise their profile. Set up by deputy Mayor Nobby Clark and councillor Allan Arnold, most of the 10 candidates in the group are, or have been people in business,  and all have their own v

Police would like to hear from anyone who witnessed a robbery on Crinan Street Sunday evening. At around 6.30pm a man entered a dairy on Crinan Street and demanded money from the shop attendant. The man then left on foot, heading east towards Ness Street with a quantity of cash, pouches of tobacco a

“A dream come true”, is how Southland racing driver, Jordan Michels, has described his impressive debut at the wheel of a Supercar in the Dunlop Super3 Series races at Sandown International Motor Raceway in Melbourne last weekend. Michels, who celebrated his 25th birthday on the Monday of race week