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Southern motorists are urged to take extra caution again as we face varying frost conditions across our region. Emergency services are currently attending to ice/speed related crashes in Dunedin, Southland and Clutha areas. Police urge motorists to take care when driving into shaded areas, bridge cr

Southern Police are urging farmers to be vigilant and to protect their herds, after the theft of eight newborn Friesian heifer calves. The calves were taken from their mothers overnight on Tuesday 26 to Wednesday 27 July 2016, from a roadside paddock at an Ermedale dairy farm. “I’m hopeful this is a

Invercargill Estuary walkway a popular location on the Pokemon Go craze that’s swept the world, was closed by Police on Sunday afternoon. (But is now open to the public again) A woman’s body was found on the estuary walkway in Invercargill, Police received a call from a member of the public who came

A much needed boost for the Southland dairy industry with news out  that a new dairy processing plant is to be built in the province. Mataura Valley Milk have announced plans to build a $200m  high tech processing plant at McNab, 7k’s north of Gore. State owned China Animal Husbandry is taking a sta

pic – whatsoninvers   The Invercargill City Council has been awarded the 2016 Project of the Year Award for moving its Land Information Memorandum (LIM) from a paper based to electronic system. The awarded was presented at the annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Inf

The first step on what might be a long and challenging journey has been taken with the presentation of the Southland Regional Development Strategy to a host of local business, community and civic leaders in Invers. The strategy aims to have Southland on a much healthier and prosperous footing over t

Southern Police are reminding motorists that with the winter season now upon us, extra care needs to be taken on our roads. District Road Policing Manager Inspector Tania Baron says, so far, much of the country has had a mild winter, but the Southern region is now well and truly feeling the winter [

Here it is Alice Fraser’s song that won her the top award at the NZ Gold Guitar Awards in Gore back in June…excellent reading of Tami Neilson’s “Lonely”……Go Alice ! Mal at the music desk.