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The Southland Sharks today commenced its recruitment of a Head Coach for the 2023 New Zealand National Basketball League following news that Rob Beveridge will not return next season. Beveridge, who became the Sharks’ Head Coach ahead of the cancelled 2020 NBL season, coached the Sharks over the las

Five lucky Lotto players from around the country will be celebrating in style after each winning $200,000 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at the following stores: Powerball was not struck this evening and has rolled over to Saturday night, where

There’s a new online group in New Zealand called The F.U. and it has started right here in Southland. We’re hesitant to label them ‘anti’ government or right-wing, as we believe that’s not fair.  The group only launched last Wednesday, and describes itself as a voice for all New Zealanders. Former G

A cool breeze did not deter around 35 people who attended the Bluff History Group’s Greenpoint Cemetery Tour on Sunday. That number included one lady who had travelled from Timaru for the event. The tour, part of N.Z. Cemeteries Week, commenced at the Lost at Sea memorial, an area created by the Blu

Police acknowledge today’s sentencing in relation to the death of 40-year-old Dale Watene. I would like to acknowledge the immense impact this tragedy has had on the family involved with this incident. Our thoughts are with Mr Watene’s family and friends today as they continue to mourn his life. The

Tauranga-born blues artist Grant Haua will be performing in the south over the next few days, on the back of an extensive European summer festival. His five-week tour of New Zealand includes gigs in Gore on Wednesday, Stewart Island on Thursday and He Waka Tuia in Invercargill on Friday night. Haua

Sky watchers get your cameras and binoculars for a lunar eclipse tonight (tues) A lunar eclipse happens when the moon travels through the Earth’s shadow. If the moon only partly makes it into the shadow, that’s a partial eclipse. In a total eclipse, the moon becomes fully immersed and takes on a red

Today is the big day for trotting and harness racing in NZ with the running of the IRT NZ Trotting Cup at Christchurch’s  Addington Raceway. (IRT stands for International Racehorse Transport.) IRT have instrumental in bringing some top Aussie trotters over for the race which has a stake of $600,000