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The Invercargill community will this month be asked their views on options identified for the future of the region’s museum. Invercargill City Council committed in its Long Term Plan 2021-2031 to invest $39.4 million to redevelop the region’s museum and art gallery and agreed to review whether a new

Independent fuel retailer Waitomo is warning of a looming unprecedented rise in prices, but one of its rivals says it does not see a benefit in suddenly reacting to every single price shift in the market. Petrol stations around the country have been busy today after the warning. Waitomo chief execut

Anti-mandate protestors continue to camp around the country, including in Invercargill, despite numbers of active cases of Covid-19 in the city heading towards 900. whatsoninvers.nz has been involved in balanced coverage of COVID from the beginning, and continues to bring our readers up-to-date with

Canterbury’s Andy Beale nearly produced the perfect book-end to a record-breaking week at the Masters Track Cycling National Championships at Invercargill. Beale opened the three-day championship at the SIT Zero Fees Velodrome with a brilliant New Zealand record in the individual pursuit, and after

The Mobil 1 Mainland Muscle Cars share the spotlight with the NZ Super Trucks at the big Southern Thunder race meeting at Teretonga Park over the weekend of 19/20 March and the man of the moment in the Muscle Car field, Timaru driver John Hepburn, is looking forward to it. Hepburn has had a stunning

Mitigating risk as the Omicron virus continues to spread has prompted the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel to change venues for two of its ANZ Premiership home games this season. Steel’s round three fixture against the Robinhood Stars in Dunedin on 27 March and round six clash with the MG Mystics in

The Commerce Commission has stopped short of a radical shake up of the supermarket sector to improve competition for consumers. Its final report into the $22 billion sector said competition in the industry was not working well for New Zealanders. “We have found that the intensity of competition betw

Update: Our poll closed and results below. Letters to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor have been circulating for weeks from those opposed to vaccine mandates, and now the council has agreed to review its vaccination-only policy. There has been ongoing confusion about whether young people (12-18) still nee