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In a culinary contest against some of New Zealand’s best, Invercargill’s Ascot Park Hotel has proved it’s up to the challenge. The hotel’s Emberz restaurant has earned two nominations in the annual Hospitality New Zealand Awards for Excellence – in the coveted Best Restaurant category and Best New/R

The best young speech writers in the region go head to head on Wednesday night to decide the winner of the annual Venture Southland Interschool Speech Contest. 61 Southland schools were involved in the event which has been a feature on the southern academic calendar since 2003. During the contest ye

The World Shearing Championships Committee finds another gear as the World Event quickly approaches. Being held in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand from the 9 th to the 11 th February in the ILT Stadium Southland, not only is the committee excited about hosting this event but Southland and New Z

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the management of Oreti Beach, which will enable local organisations to more effectively protect the beach, was officially signed yesterday Photo: tikitouringnz.blogspot.co.nz The MOU exists between the Department of Conservation, Environment Southland, Inverca

Here’s a busy city intersection that is in the process of change. Demolition work has started on what was the Salvation Army Citadel on the Tay / Conon St corner. The Salvation Army sold this site to FoodStuffs who operate then neighbouring Pak N Save supermarket and have moved to new base on Victor

Best wishes from all in Police to our colleague Jess Hamill as she represents New Zealand at the Rio Paralympics. Born and raised in Invers , Jess is a clerk at the Southern District File Management Centre in Dunedin, is ranked third in the world in Women’s Shotput (F34 category). This week she is g

Two days of motor racing action opened the season at Teretonga Park, Invercargill this weekend. On Saturday the opening rounds of the 2016 Carters Tyres South Island Endurance Series were held. The 3 Hour race went to the Trass Family Motorsport Team Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 of Sam Fillmore of Aucklan

The Venture Southland Inter-Schools Speech contests have been held this week. Whatsoninvers news director Mal Gayfer was invited along to be part of the judging panel at the contest held at James Hargest Junior High School this afternoon. Mal says the contestants were very competent speakers  and co