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Construction has started on Invercargill’s new $600,000 Chinese Gardens deep within Queens Park.  Being built beside the indoor Winter Gardens, they are also near our existing Japanese Gardens for sister city Kumagaya. Check out the view from our What’s On Invers eye in the sky! Invercargill City Co

We all know that Southland covers a vast land area and the weather can be at best unpredictable. So here’s a good story about how farmers can get precise weather info for their farming operations. Any Southland farmers signing up to get one of these weather gizmo’s ? Fonterra farmers will come toget

Katrina Thomas from western Southland has won the Dairy Women’s Network’s Dairy Community Leadership Award. The award was presented at the Dairy Women’s Network’s annual conference held in Queenstown. Awarded to an unsung heroes of rural communities it recognises the voluntary role dairy farming wom

Traffic lights at the intersection of Elles Road and Martin and Janet Streets will be turned off from 8am to 5pm on Sunday (14 May 2017) while the traffic light pole tops are replaced. A traffic diversion will allow traffic on Elles Road to travel straight through and turn left into either Janet Str

HW Richardson Group Property CEO and Group director Scott O’Donnell along with his wife of 22 years, Jocelyn (Joc) O’Donnell, Group director and Transport World founder, both have a passion and desire to see their home town Invercargill become a city everyone can be proud of. The pair were born, rai

Police can now name the man who died following a single vehicle crash on the Riverton-Wallacetown Highway (State Highway 99) yesterday. Steven Brent Harris, 65, of Tuatapere, was the sole occupant of the vehicle when it crashed at 5.45am on Wednesday, 3 May 2017. The Serious Crash Unit’s investigati

With three sleeps until Duck Hunting season begins – whatsoninvers spoke to keen hunter and duck-call maker Scott Anderson, of Invercargill today (May 3), about opening season this weekend (May 6-7). Mr Anderson, general manager at Top Gear Audio, said he looked forward to Duck Hunting season each y

Dairy product prices advanced at the Global Dairy Trade auction, increasing for the fourth consecutive time amid strong demand. The GDT price index climbed 3.6 percent from the previous auction two weeks ago to US$3,166. Some 22,633 tonnes of product was sold, down from 22,927 tonnes at the previous