News

Press release from ICC…this is great news for the CBD after council selling off the Don street car park last year. The Invercargill City Council has purchased, for an undisclosed sum, the inner city property owned by William Todd and Co, Chief Executive Richard King said today. Mr King said the site

Attention all Southland ladies mark this Thursday night in your calendar for the Soroptimist International if Invercargill “A Girls Night Out” a fundraiser for NZ breast cancer, hosted by Ascot Park Hotel. Special Guest Speaker is Marg Foster (Ambassador for Breast Cancer) plus there will be fashion

Invercargill City Council this week released details of an application by McDonald’s Restaurants (NZ) Ltd  to construct and operate a new restaurant in South Invercargill, at the corner of Elles Road and Bowmont Street. The physical address of the site is 110-120 Elles Road and 198 Bowmont Street. T

New name new owners Dunkleys Craft Shows is now The Great New Zealand Craft Show and this year SIT Velodrome is host till Sunday with new Owner Linda telling us that next year they plan to take over the entire ILT Southland Stadium and are very keen to add local Invercargill retailers the mix. It’s

We release our inner child and take a fun look through Young Reflections on Tay Street! It should be your one stop children’s shop as it’s packed full of educational books, games, toys, puzzles and more… Owner Joy Brown started Young Reflections 22 years ago from a little shop in the old 55 Arcade o

We have so many crafty people in Southland and there’s a shop on Tay street “Artists Collective” (next to Creativity Plus next to Hannahs shoes) packed full of all sorts of great hand crafted gifts and treats. There’s something for everyone and you will be like a kid in a candy store. The shop is pa

Spring is the air and that means summer fashion has hit ‘Voyant Fashion Boutique’ on Esk Street Mall with new labels and stock just in time for summer. Boutique owner Carolyn Nutsford says we are pretty excited to have a number of new brands just in time for summer with tee shirts and jeans from […]

Who hates rubbish and litter bugs? Well Natalia Waaka Third Year SIT Bachelor of Applied Media Art Student, currently researching how, ‘Socially Engaged Art Practice can create Social Awareness that there is a Litter Problem here in Invercargill.’ My first project photographed was based on Victoria’