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Local artists are being offered the opportunity to create and implement their own original design on one of 11 Chorus cabinets in the city. Chorus is working with the Invercargill City Council as part of their Chorus Cabinet Art Programme to provide the telecommunications cabinets. The Programme see

The Invercargill City Council is calling for nominations for the 2016 Civic Honours Awards. Any person who has carried out meritorious voluntary service in the Invercargill City District in one or more of the following categories is eligible for nomination by any two citizens of Invercargill: Recrea

The pace is being set for contenders aspiring to take a seat on the Invercargill City Council. It’s very encouraging to see the list of names growing by the week, including Alex Crackett, Toni Biddle standing for ICC and Tom Conroy standing for mayor. The latest contender that we know about is Neil

The quest for energy efficiency continues at Splash Palace following the recent installation of a larger woodchip storage bunker. Stage one of the conversion of the aquatic centre to wood energy began in 2013 with the replacement of two coal boilers with an Austrian manufactured woodchip boiler. Sta

Three Lotto players share $1 million jackpot It was a Mother’s Day to remember for Lotto players from Upper Hutt, Temuka and Invercargill who won $333,333 each with Lotto First Division in Saturday nights live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Pak N Save Upper Hutt, Temuka New World and P

1941 Lego World War Two Battle of Brody Tiny armies duke it out again near Dubno in present-day Ukraine. It’s day two of von Kleist’s Soviet Vacation, but Zhukov has 3,500 tanks. One thing’s for sure – nobody’s going to apologize for tearing up Ukraine’s lawn.

BY ALLISON BECKHAM AND PETRINA WRIGHT  Southlanders are flocking to view kakapo chicks, and the opportunity has even attracted visitors from further afield.   The Department of Conservation’s (Doc) Invercargill kakapo rearing unit has been temporarily relocated to a vacant building on Esk St West do

Flight Centre Invercargill are relocating from the corner of Esk & Kelvin (under the Kelvin hotel) to the former Air New Zealand holidays store on the corner of SIT arcade on Esk street Mall. The current store will close on the 26th of May and re open at their new location on 30th May. Other changes