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This from RNZ News A Chinese firm’s application to purchase a 50 percent stake in Silver Fern Farms has been approved by the Overseas Investment Office. Silver Fern Farms CEO Dean Hamilton and board chair Rob Hewett at a special shareholders’ meeting in August. Photo: RNZ / Ian Telfer The major meat

Food Truck Friday is coming to Invercargill with a fleet of food trucks and stalls set to operate out of Wachner Place from this Friday between 10am and 4pm. The idea was the brainchild of Council’s City-Centre Co-ordinator Kari Graber, who said it would turn Wachner Place into a hub for food trucks

Sandy Point could become a world famous playground for nature buffs and petrol-heads, Invercargill City Council candidate Allan Arnold says. The life-long Invercargill resident, who owns and runs city cafe-bars Ziffs and Buster Crabb, said he wanted to sow the seeds of a 100-year native bush regener

Police are calling for information from the public after a vehicle travelling with an insecure load almost resulted in tragic consequences. At about 8.45am on Tuesday 13 September a driver was travelling south on SH1 between Balclutha and Milton when a wooden fence post came off a passing vehicle an

Invercargill Police are investigating an incident where a man has presented to Southland Hospital on Sunday, 18 September 2016, with a gunshot wound. This incident is believed to have occurred in the Invercargill area sometime around 7pm on Sunday evening. The man remains in a stable condition in So

This Will Be The Beating Heart Of The Community of South Invercargill – Janette Malcolm  South Alive has unveiled plans for a vibrant $1.2 million community hub in South City. The latest initiative of the South Invercargill Urban Rejuvenation Charitable Trust will provide a significant community ass

Invercargill Police are calling for information from the public in regard to a vehicle fire in the early hours of Sunday 18 September. At approximately 5.20am on Sunday morning Police were called to the corner of Scott and Boxall Streets where a grey van was on fire. The vehicle was extensively dama

Long running local antique and secondhand store Bell and Wyatt is closing. Starting in 1971 by partners Athol Bell and William Wyatt, Bell and Wyatt became a secondhand shop staple of the South. Since 1995, the store had been run by local basketball enthusiast Danny Wyatt, until his passing earlier