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Invercargill Police are seeking information about a suspected arson of a building at McQuarrie Street park on Friday 6 April around 2pm. No one was in the building at the time, however the building has been extensively damaged. Anybody with information that can assist the enquiry can contact Constab

A big house fire destroys Bowmont street property, with smoke from various part of town. Three fire trucks are in attendance along with an ambulance. Photos sent in to whatsoinnvers.nz show the fire has totally destroyed the house.

Three Lotto players from Auckland and Canterbury will simply not believe their luck after each winning $333,333 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. Two winning tickets were sold at Countdown Mt Wellington in Auckland and the third was sold on MyLotto to a player in Canterbury. Po

The success of wood energy systems around the region is convincing more businesses and schools to choose environmentally-friendly biomass heating options. One of the latest schools to be reaping the benefits in a switch to Biomass is Ruru Specialist School, which had a wood energy boiler installed m

The Invercargill Licensing Trust has enlisted an experienced project manager to oversee the build of its multi-million dollar inner city hotel. Tess Browne, of The Building Intelligence Group, will bring independent leadership to the flagship project, which has an approved budget of up to $40 millio

The countdown to the Southern launch of the National Bowel Screening Programme is well and truly underway. From the end of April, over 51,000 residents in Otago and Southland, aged 60 – 74 years of age, will be invited to participate in the national programme. This free programme, which is available

What’s On Invers has learnt that this year’s Duck hunting season is to be cancelled. The season for the hugely popular activity traditionally starts on the first weekend of May. While some details remain uncertain whatsoninvers.nz understands that the reason for the sudden order to cancel comes from

Six Lotto players have shared the $1 million Lotto jackpot to take home $166,667 each after winning Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Victoria Station in Cambridge, Pak N Save Whangarei (x2) in Whangarei, Magazine City and Lotto in Auckland, Omokoroa