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Police need motorists in the wider Invercargill & Southland area to take it slow and be aware there may be ice on the roads this morning. Police are currently at the scene of a crash involving five cars on North Road, Lorneville. It appears the vehicles, including trucks and cars, have hit ice and s

Do you know who’s been ripping out the road signs? Lets catch this fool before a bad accident or someone gets hurt. Takie Police have received reports over the last two weeks or so of road signs deliberately being run over in the Winton/Central Southland area. Some of these signs have included Give

UPDATE: Police respond to incident on Tyne Street, Invercargill Invercargill Police are still responding to an incident at The Haven, Invercargill but cordons have now been taken down. Emergency services were initially called at approximately 2:15pm to a report of a strong chemical smell. As a preca

Southern Police have noticed a significant increase in the number of people advertising items through Facebook, with no intention of supplying the goods to the purchaser. The sellers use an alias, either by giving a false name or an unregistered company to advertise the goods. Often sellers communic

This story came up on RNZ’s Checkpoint programme. Is there something wrong in the telling of this story or is the health system on its knees for this to be allowed to happen? Here it is……. Several Southern DHB patients have had surgeries delayed multiple times because of a bed shortage in the intens

One person involved in a multiple-vehicle crash in Central Otago has been taken to hospital. Emergency services were notified around 7:15am of the crash just west of Roaring Meg on Kawarau Gorge Road. A heavy motor vehicle had come to the end of a slow-vehicle bay, and a van had stopped suddenly to

Newshub’s Paddy Gower has this explosive story Newshub can reveal the Government is on the brink of a major backdown and it’s on one of the election’s big issues – immigration. Immigration was due to be tightened on August 14 but there’s been a backlash from employers and the regions. Sources have t

Shocked, shocked, shocked!! That’s the WOI team on learning of the passing of one of invers true identities this weekend. Well known chef-come teacher Scott Richardson passed away this weekend. Scott’s passing leaves an unfillable (if there is such a word) hole in the culinary world of invers partic