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Invercargill Police have charged two persons today in relation to a recent spate of offending where cigarettes and tobacco were targeted. A 17-year-old youth faces two charges of burglary in relation to tobacco stolen from Centre Street dairy in South Invercargill on two separate occasions on 17 and

Things are starting to heat up within our council, factions forming and the infighting becoming public, who will you be voting for Mayor? Currently there are four candidates standing for mayor.   [interaction id=”5d1542e56a26dd0eb812405c”]

Police have arrested two people in relation to an alleged aggravated burglary at a South Otago address on 12 June. This morning Police executed search warrants at four properties, one in Gore and three in Mataura. These searches involved Balclutha, Gore and Invercargill CIB and Armed Offenders Squad

An agreement to extend the recycling sorting contract held by Southland disAbility Enterprises (SdE) for 12 months has been reached. The agreement between WasteNet and SdE is to be formally endorsed by the three WasteNet partner councils – Gore District Council, Invercargill City Council and Southla

Police have concluded a two day search that resumed on 17 June to locate one person following a boat that went missing with two people aboard on Lake Hauroko, Southland on Friday 31 May. The team found items of clothing and cooking utensils. However, no person or boat was located. The items were fou

More than 300 people have had their say on the city block development investment proposal – have you had yours? The Invercargill City Council is currently in consultation with the community about whether it should invest up to $30million in the city block development. Council Strategy and Policy Man

The government has announced a new deal aimed at breaking the deadlock with teachers, which Education Minister Chris Hipkins says unions will recommend to their members. Mr Hipkins said a key element of the revised deal is a unified base salary scale for all primary, secondary and area school teache

The site went live at 9:30am on Tuesday and within minutes bookings for the 70 beds in huts along the track were full for December and January. “They are very, very popular. What we see those peak periods like the summer, the Christmas period and public holidays, you really do need to be in quickly