Sport & Motorsport

Skate South are ready to hold their first event, a skate, BMX, Scooter and Rollerblade Jam/Competition at the Invercargill Skate Park this Saturday (15 January). The event will run from 8.30am until 4.00pm featuring Open and Under 16 Skate sections for both Boys and Girls and will conclude with a Be

Cormac Buchanan dominated the SuperSport 300 category at the Bridgestone NZ Grand Prix over the weekend. The three-day meeting was originally meant to host the New Zealand Superbike Championship’s (NZSBK) opening round but that has now been postponed until March. Cormac is part of the Altherm JCR Ya

After a long search for the key position of Operational and Development Manager Southland Football is pleased to announce that local football identity Iain Walker has accepted the role to assist in taking the local organisation forward. Walker will be familiar to many in the community due to his pre

The 2021 National Basketball season may not have ended the way Alonzo Burton had hoped, but he is using last year’s late season injury as fuel ahead of his 2022 return to the Southland Sharks. Burton was forced to sit out the Sharks’ NBL semifinal loss to Hawke’s Bay in July as a broken finger […]

The busy Christmas season for the Southland Sharks continued today with Liam McRae confirming his return for the 2022 New Zealand National Basketball League. “It was an easy decision to be honest, I mean there’s nothing like playing down South especially when the crowd gets going as they did last se

A group formed recently to support young skateboarders in the south, Skate South, will hold their first event, a skate, BMX, Scooter and Rollerblade Jam/Competition at the Invercargill Skate Park on Saturday 15 January. The event will feature Open categories, Under 16 Skate sections for both Boys an

Invercargill City Council has passed the administration of the Invercargill Active Communities funding scheme to Active Southland. Council resolved to transfer the administration of the fund to Active Southland at a meeting of the Performance, Policy and Partnerships committee in July. The scheme ha

In a telling final few minutes, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel completed a dramatic come-from-behind rally to clinch the points in a hard-fought 47-45 win over The Good Oil Tactix in Nelson on Monday. In a contrasting final stanza, which the Tactix dominated early after a run over seven straight go