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At this week’s board meeting of Rugby Southland, Bernie McKone announced he has stepped down as Chairman for Rugby Southland. McKone will remain on the board as a director until the AGM in April 2023. This was a planned decision by McKone, stating he won’t be seeking a further term in April next yea

Southland Sharks Head Coach Rob Beveridge is recovering from a serious accident which saw him sustain significant injuries during a scheduled trip home to Sydney three weeks ago. Following the Sharks game against the Otago Nuggets, Beveridge returned home for a family function in Wollongong. One day

Southland’s Town Crier Lynley McKerrow is back, and she and her new husband have settled in Tuatapere where they recently opened an ice cream milkshake parlour. After 23 years in Invercargill, Lynley packed up and moved to the Waikato with Terry Hunt in 2020 – thinking a fresh start in the city wher

An exciting new category and 39 finalists across 17 codes and pursuits have been confirmed for this year’s ILT Southland Sports Awards. For the first time, New Zealand’s longest running regional sports awards are including a Community Impact award to celebrate initiatives which have had a significan

Today’s Cabinet reshuffle has been sparked by the departures of Kris Faafoi and Trevor Mallard. Earlier, it was confirmed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would announce some “minor” changes to the Cabinet line-up. Ardern confirmed Faafoi had decided to leave Parliament to be with his family as his you

A man has died following a workplace incident in Kaiwera, Gore this morning. Emergency services were called to the scene about 9.55am. The incident has been referred to WorkSafe, and the man’s death will be referred to the Coroner.

Mooving day has come and gone with the team at AWS Legal seeing a record number of settlements. The first day of winter, mooving day marks the date farming families, shareholders, contract milkers and employees across the region move to new farms. Despite it being just one day, preparation for moovi

Invercargill Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt is doing his damndest to put the city council’s Legacy Report to bed and move on.  But the Risk and Assurance Committee chair Bruce Robertson said today that it was important that the past 18 months of work done by the council was not “dropped and forgotten.” A re