Southland

Invercargill is getting a loan of $19.5 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to help with a big redevelopment of the central city. The project to attract businesses and shoppers back to the CBD and put vacant or abandoned buildings into use is costing $165m. Regional Economic Development Minister

Lauren Phillips, a 21-year-old apprentice from Invercargill, is competing at the WorldSkills tournament in Russia this week. Is she nervous? ‘Not really’. Apprentice plumber Lauren Phillips laughing, again. Lauren Phillips, 21, apprehensively rolls up her left sleeve and flexes her muscles, as reque

Who remembers the Friday auctions at Todd & Co Auction House? While it has been a few years since the hammer fell for the last time, something new is now on the horizon. Hospice Invercargill is teaming up with Harcourts Auctioneer Sean Bellew for monthly Steptoe auctions on the last Friday of every

On Sunday 25th of August, Invercargill Airport will become the first regional airport in New Zealand to host a regular jet service with the arrival of the inaugural Air New Zealand flight between Auckland and Invercargill. Great South Chief Executive Ann Lockhart said the touchdown would be a signif

Each year Alasdair MacKenzie flies home to Scotland from Southland for the Scottish Champs in July and World Pipe Band Champs held in Glasgow just last weekend there. Bit of a dream trip, was great to win the Scottish Champs but the Worlds is the one everyone wants and it’s great to take the title [

A 24-year-old man charged with stealing a police car and two police pistols has been remanded in custody after his first appearance in Invercargill District Court. Officers arrested Hori Gemmell in Te Tipua yesterday afternoon after a more than 36-hour search. Mr Gemmell has been charged with two co

Gore Police are appealing for sightings of a vehicle in relation to missing person Bryce Raimon Wilson. Bryce, 40, was last seen near the North Gore Dairy on Wednesday 14 August. The vehicle has a large scrape on the passenger side. Police and Bryce’s family have concerns for his wellbeing. If you h

Police have sized more than one million dollars in cash and assets, as well as meth with an estimated street value of $12 million. In a major drug bust yesterday, (Wednesday 7th August) more than 150 police staff raided houses and commercial properties in Auckland, Canterbury and Southland. The seiz