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Southland Police are appealing for information to help identify a man seen near a vehicle shortly before it was stolen. The Toyota Hilux, registration AZQ526, was stolen from Cairnard Road, Fairlight at about 11am on Sunday 25 March. It has a wooden dog box and a silver tool box bolted to the deck.

The Invercargill City Council is working with multiple agencies to address the issue of asbestos discovered at Ocean Beach, Bluff. Following tests by Public Health South, it has been determined that coastal erosion has caused what could be a former landfill site to spill asbestos onto the foreshore

A search and rescue operation is underway in Fiordland National Park after a 69-year-old man was reported missing this morning. Police were called at 10.42am by a man who said he had become separated from his hunting partner, and had not seen him since yesterday morning. The missing man is an experi

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has determined that all cattle on properties infected with the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis will be culled, and will be working with farmers to do that from today. “The depopulation of entire herds on all 28 Infected Properties (IPs) in New Zealand is a c

Police can now release the name of the man who died after getting into trouble while diving in Doubtful Sound yesterday. Police extend our sympathies to his family and friends. At approximately 1:45pm today Police received a report that a diver had been recovered unresponsive from the water near Bau

UPDATED: 12pm A 20-year-old man has had surgery in Southland Hospital and is being flown to Dunedin Hospital, after being run over early this morning. It happened just before 4am on the Winton-Hedgehope Highway, north of Norman Road. A group of young people were being dropped off after returning fro

At approximately 1:45pm today Police received a report that a diver had been recovered unresponsive from the water near Bauza Island, Doubtful Sound. The report came from a boat on the water in the same area, Sergeant Tod Hollebon said. A distress call was sent out and a second nearby vessel respond

Southland residents are being urged to be cautious about a rates scam reported in some parts of the District. Chief executive Steve Ruru said Council had been made aware of some residents receiving visits from a person claiming rates for their properties were overdue, and requesting they make their