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Update # 2 – search for fisherman, Southland Police and Search and Rescue staff have concluded today’s search for a missing fisherman off the Slope Point coastline. The missing man, 29-year-old Shan Norton McLauchlan, was reported overdue yesterday. A team will tomorrow return to the coastline to co

Name release – Middlemarch plane crash Police can now name the person who died following a plane crash at Welshman’s Creek, northeast of Middlemarch on Sunday 25 June. He was 73-year-old Murray Joan Barrington of Brighton, Dunedin. Police extend their condolences to his family. The cause of the cras

Update State Highway One (Waikouaiti-Waitati Road), Dunedin, has reopened following a fatal crash this afternoon.   Police would like to thank motorists again for their patience and cooperation while diversions were in place.   Please be careful in the wet weather and keep an eye on your following d

Some of the best brains behind New Zealand’s craft brew industry will be in Invercargill this week for the Southern Malt Collective. Now in its fourth year, the collective, hosted by Invercargill Brewery provides a rare chance for brewers to meet with brewers with to share and growing their skill-se

A car rolled near Gore on Thursday evening two people are seriously injured. What we know: A man and a woman were injured, one seriously and the other critical Two ambulances were sent to the scene at Diamond Peak Road Both people were flown by helicopter to Dunedin Hospital Police were also at the

Police are appealing for witnesses, after two males have entered the Sunbeam Milk Bar, Coutts Road in Gore tonight at around 7.20pm and demanded money and cigarettes. They were unsuccessful in their attempt to rob the milk bar and ran off from the store. No one was injured. They were last seen  runn

National MP Todd Barclay has today announced he will not stand as the candidate for Clutha-Southland in the 2017 election, and will leave Parliament at the end of this term. “I got into politics because I was inspired by the people I worked for, Bill English, Gerry Brownlee and Hekia Parata.  I want

It could happen we have to be prepared. Thats the  message from Invercargill Airport general manager Nigel Finnerty as final preparations are made for today’s air crash simulation exercise. Before the whatsoninvers crew headed out onto the tarmac to see first hand how an actual air crash scenario wo