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103 players from all over New Zealand will be celebrating after each winning $10,363 in Saturday’s Strike Must Be Won draw. The Strike Must Be Won jackpot of $1 million was not won by a single ticket and therefore rolled down to Division 2, where it was shared by the 103 players. Marie Winfield, Hea

Watch live: Ashley Bloomfield and Andrew Coster on Covid-19 and level 2 rules Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster are providing an update on the Covid-19 response and level 2 rules. Watch the briefing here at 1pm: https://youtu.be/sw5mKv5RHCA

A crash between a car and a ute happened at about 4:20pm on Elles Road outside Splash Palace, closing the northbound lane towards Tay street. A St John spokeswoman confirmed two ambulances attended the scene, two patients with minor injuries and two patients with moderate injuries were taken to Sout

This means New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable cases remains at 1,498, of which 1,148 are confirmed cases of COVID-19. We now have 1,428 people reported as having recovered from COVID-19, an increase of seven on yesterday. This is 95% of all confirmed and probable cases. Today the

The Government’s U-turn on allowing more than 10 people at a funeral signals to New Zealanders that they can be trusted to act appropriately. Invercargill deputy Mayor Toni Biddle, who was right behind a petition to change the rules, said the whole country had gone to battle on what was considered p

Inter-regional travel should provide Southland tourism with a lifeline once it gets underway under Level 2. Great South chief executive Graham Budd said families that would otherwise be heading overseas for holidays this year may just decide to venture south instead. “So that’s another pool of expen

Work and Income appears to have spent decades wrongly advising some benefit applicants that they cannot get support until their redundancy has run out. Work and Income admitted on Friday it had made an error after it rejected the benefit claim of Mary, an Auckland hotel worker, due to her Covid-19 r

The Ministry of Health has announced no new COVID-19 cases in the Southern district today. The region’s total remains 216, with four active cases, 210 now recovered and two deceased. In the Southern district it has now been 27 days since a new case was reported.