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Watch this space ! This well known corner site has been sold. Corner Dee street & Victoria Ave. Photo: whatsoinvers.nz Harcourts real estate agent David McKillop says the building and site was sold at auction earlier this week. While he couldn’t reveal what sort of coin was paid for the property Dav

Investigations into the collapse of a silo full of 500 tonnes of milk in Southland have discovered cracks in four other silos at two Fonterra factories. Fonterra Edendale plant. Photo Fonterra Cracks have been found in three more of the 15m silos next to the one that collapsed at the Fonterra’s bigg

Cycling fans around the country will have an unprecedented opportunity to watch free-to- air television coverage of New Zealand’s leading stage cycle race. Coverage of the 2016 SBS Bank Tour of Southland will be broadcast on TVNZ’s Duke channel (available on Freeview 13 or Sky 23) and also streamed

New research by the University of Auckland shows that 12 per cent more kiwi kids are meeting recommended daily dairy consumption guidelines since the introduction of the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme. The findings of the research were announced by the study investigator Associate Professor Cla

In 24 years involved with the ILT Youthmark Young Achievers Awards, photographer Shelley Clark has never had cows in the mix before. St Peter’s College Year 13 student Kate Cummings with some of her prized Holstein Frisian cattle and many award ribbons. Photo: Shelley Clark Wyndham’s Kate Cummings i

Silver Fern Farms is consulting with staff at its North Island Wairoa mutton processing plant and its South Island Mossburn venison plant on options for closing the two small sites. Silver Fern Farms Chief Executive Dean Hamilton says: “with changing livestock flows, there is the opportunity for the

“Keep valuables out of sight in vehicles” Thats the message from Southland Police Area Prevention Manager, Inspector Mike Bowman. If it can be seen, it can be stolen. That’s the basic prevention message from Police in Southland. We’re reminding vehicle owners to keep valuables out of sight. It follo

Renowned dancer Jonny Williams, of Dancing With The Stars fame, will lend his expertise to an Invercargill charity event. Photo: tvnz Williams will join Suzanne Prentice and Raewyn and Gordon Hall on the judging panel for Rocking with the Stars, to be staged at ILT Stadium Southland on October 29. A