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Dairy product prices rose 11.4% at today’s Global Dairy Trade auction, the second biggest increase in prices this year. Whole milk powder (WMP) was the main driver of the price increase at the latest auction, with prices rising 19.8%. The NZX Futures market had pointed to a 10% rise for WMP auction

Invercargill City Council Chief Executive Richard King this afternoon released a breakdown of costs around the city’s new Christmas lights and decorations. The breakdown shows that approximately half the cost of the $249,000 project for Invercargill City’s new Christmas lights and decorations will b

Young Invercargill driver Liam MacDonald returns to Pukekohe Park Raceway, south of Auckland, this weekend to contest the opening round of the BNT NZ Touring Car Championship. The fast, South Auckland circuit has proven to be a happy hunting ground for MacDonald in the past including a podium there

The 17th ILT Southland Secondary Schools’ Sports Awards ceremony is on Friday November 4 at 7:30pm at the Ascot Park Hotel. The guest speaker will be Southland’s New Zealand representative rower Genevieve Behrent, who won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Southland Secondary Schools Spor

The Invercargill City Council and city centre retailers are gearing up for an afternoon of Trick or Treating fun tomorrow (Saturday 29 October) between 1-4pm. The family event is to give primary aged children, or younger, the opportunity to dress up for Halloween and enjoy Trick or Treating fun in a

We will celebrate the many impressive, innovative and creative achievements of our Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme students, on Thursday, 27 October at Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill. At the start of 2016, 138 students from James Hargest College, Aparima College, Mt Aspiring

pic-whatsoninvers.nz Invercargill City Council adopted its 2015-2016 Annual Report at the Inaugural Council Meeting held this week Chairman of the Finance and Policy Committee, Deputy Mayor Darren Ludlow said the Plan showed a good result for the year. “It received a clear audit report from Audit NZ

NZHerald Business Desk Children’s clothing retailer Pumpkin Patch has been tipped into receivership by its lenders and appointed voluntary administrators after failing to reinvent itself in the face of shrinking sales and too much debt. Pumpkin Patch Invers – pic whatsoninvers.nz Auckland-based Pump