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Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) will be incorporating Tai Poutini Polytechnic’s (TPP) Music and Audio Institute of NZ (MAINZ) under the SIT umbrella as of 2018. Since early November, SIT and TPP have undergone a process of discussion to determine the best option for TPP delivering tertiary vo

Congratulations to this week’s whatsoninvers.nz Christmas Cracker random draw winners. The competition finishes Thursday 22nd so be sure to shop locally to be in to win. If you are one of these lucky winners, your names have been given to the stores. Pop in and say you won a What’s On Invers Christm

Ministry for Primary Industries are holding a community meeting in Southland on Mycoplasma bovis. Mycoplasma bovis is a bacterium that causes illness in cattle, including udder infection (mastitis), abortion, pneumonia, and arthritis. It does not infect humans and presents no food safety risk. This

Former Invercargill police officer Benjamin McLean has been jailed for 17 years for killing his wife and attempting to kill her partner. Former police officer Benjamin McLean appears for sentencing after pleading guilty to murdering his wife. McLean appeared in the High Court at Invercargill this mo

Police are attending reports of a multiple vehicle crash in Maheno, near Oamaru which occurred at about 6pm this evening. Some of the occupants of the vehicles are trapped. Three helicopters have been called to the scene. One patient is in a critical condition Two patients are in a serious condition

Police can now release the name of the man whose body was recovered from Stevensons Island, Lake Wanaka yesterday (December 16). The Police National Dive Squad found the body at 3.30pm on Saturday (December 16), not far from where he went missing. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. The d

A man’s body has been found during the search for a swimmer who went missing yesterday afternoon from Stevensons Island, Lake Wanaka. The Police National Dive Squad found the body at 3.30pm today, not far from where the swimmer went missing. Police extend their sympathies to the man’s family at this

Emergency services, Wanaka Search and Rescue and Coastguard were notified when a man disappeared swimming at midday today in Lake Wanaka. The man was on Stevensons Island when he swam out to retrieve a drifting boat but then got into trouble. Another person swam out to help him but that person wasn’