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Five PowerNet staff are lending their skills and expertise to the international recovery effort underway in Fiji following the devastating Cyclone Winston. A PowerNet team of five line mechanics will travel to Fiji on Saturday 2 April and spend up to three weeks in the country’s second largest city,

So sad today to read reports that British comedian and TV star Ronnie Corbett has passed away. Little arguement, and he was little, that The Two Ronnies with the late Ronnie Barker was his finest work. He came to NZ a few times and more recently has been a guest on The Graham Norton Show […]

Veteran broadcaster and former Country Calendar producer and director Frank Torley has died. Frank, 75, died peacefully yesterday morning after a short, sharp battle with cancer, his family said. Country Calendar was popular by townies just as much as country folk who worked on the land. Frank retir

On the corner of Victoria Ave & Liffey street (opp MacDonalds & Invercargill Prison) the cities 4th Subway with a drive through is being constructed. Currently there are Subways at Wachner place, South city & Windsor. Here’s a demo of a Subway with a drive through in the USA. https://www.youtube.com

Noel Leeming on Leven street (part of the Warehouse Group) is expanding their Invercargill store into the soon to be vacant Lighting Plus store. Lighting Plus is relocating to the old Bond & Bond store just past Wet n Forget in the Leven street retail centre.

Council has appointed its new Building Services Manager, Brendan Monaghan, who will start on April 4. He takes over from Simon Tonkin, who has moved to another position within the Council after 20 years in the role. Invercargill City Council’s Director of Environmental and Planning Services, Pamela

Invercargill Police are trying to locate the owner of a green quad motorbike that was seized from a group of youths early last year. There have been no located reported thefts that can be linked to this quad bike. If you are the owner and can show us a proof of ownership we would happily […]

Like all good things, it takes time, and healthy doses of planning and money. That’s the short summary of the Invercargill Business Park, the brain child of local builder, developer Russell Cunningham. The long time builder developer grabbed what was the Invercargill Showgrounds when the Southland A