OPINION: I had the pleasure, if you can call it that, to attend the latest Full Council meeting. What a circus it turned into, led by Mayoral candidate Cr Ludlow. His initial gesture was to stop an attempt by the Mayor to allow each Councillor to express a view on whether next elections voting form

This years race for the Invercargill Mayoralty currently has three contenders, Incumbent Tim Shadbolt, Former deputy mayor Darren Ludlow and current deputy mayor Rebecca Amundsen. With more expected to come out of the woodwork in coming days, weeks, months. Related: Becs Amundsen to Run for Invercar

OPINION: The race for the keys to the Invercargill mayoral office and car (and a big, expensive, carbon dioxide spewing, not-particularly safe in comparison to other cars, beast of a gangsta-wagon it is) is starting to generate some interest. The incumbent, newly-knighted Sir Timothy Shadbolt, once

OPINION: We have all seen the proposal for this city centre development potentially one of the biggest retail developments of an established city centre in New Zealand and this is all happening here in Southland thanks to HWCP. The project is going to include 1000 covered car parks, retail shops, me