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Like tens of thousands of New Zealanders, the Taxpayers’ Union submitted to the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on Three Waters (Water Services Entities Bill). With the Union’s submission was a bombshell legal opinion. Ministers have repeated assurances that councils will continue to own wa

Linzi Turner is ready for some interesting feedback now that her book “Are our superfoods silently killing us?” has been published. But she’s totally expecting people to question the book and the medical reports when they read about how some superfoods and low GI foods are toxins. “People become qui

Mike & About: Today I chat with Joy Brown owner of Young Reflections. This week they celebrate 30 years in business. Their birthday celebrations run til Saturday 13th August, head in store to try their birthday cake. Young Reflections 13 Tay Street, opposite Invercargill Central.

Sad, sad news so early in the week with the passing of two wonderful women of song, Dame Olivia Newton-John and Judith Durham. For me the news of the passing of both singers came out of left field although both have had health issues in latter days. But both made a huge impact around the […]

This poll we asked which existing Invercargill City Councillors (who are not standing for mayor) will you be re-electing to the council table. Again in this poll just like the Mayoral snap poll Rebecca Amundsen isn’t getting any cut through, second last just ahead of Lesley Soper. You would think wi

New Zealanders have said Stop Three Waters, with 68,661 submissions lodged at StopThreeWaters.nz by 65,091 unique users on the Government’s Water Services Entities Bill by midnight last Friday. Of those 8,634 people indicated they’d like to make an oral submission. Late Friday afternoon, staff from

This afternoon Invercargill City Councillor Ian Pottinger put out a media release confirming speculation that he would drop out of the mayoral race and focus on being re-elected to council. This follows another mayoral candidate Rebecca Amunsden today announcing the same, to drop her mayoral aspirat

Heavy snow for the south and east of the South Island. Severe south to southeast gales possible for parts of the South Island A very cold south to southeast flow spreads north over the South Island today (Sunday), bringing snow to low levels to many areas of the South Island. Heavy Snow Warnings and