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Nearly a fortnight after a shooting in Invercargill, a national television appeal’s being made to find a man wanted over the incident. There is a warrant to arrest 24-year-old Anthony Miles Tamaiti Watkins in relation to the shooting on Saturday 30th June. “It’s important that we find Watkins. That’

South Otago sheep farmer Logan Wallace has been named the 50th FMG Young Farmer of the Year. The 28-year-old took out the coveted title in front of a crowd of 1,000 people in Invercargill tonight. Elated locals cheered as their hometown boy made his way through a standing ovation and onto the stage.

The Whistling Frog Café is the latest Southern organisation to benefit from a life-saving donation from PowerNet and St John. An automated defibrillator (AED) was donated to the café in July, one of four donated to Southern communities this year. The donation is part of PowerNet and St John’s sponso

Finalists competing in the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final will begin arriving in Invercargill today. It’s the 50th anniversary of the iconic agricultural contest, which was first held in Auckland in 1969. A sell-out crowd of more than 1,000 people will pack ILT Stadium Southland for Saturd

Update: NZTA advise the road is cleared and now open. Police are on the scene of a fatal crash in Southland. The collision, between a car and a truck, occurred on State Highway 96, Browns to Hedgehope and Springhills  intersection shortly after 7pm. One person died at the scene, another sustained mi

Southlanders are being asked to share their thoughts, hopes and dreams as part of the project to redevelop the Southland Museum and Art Gallery. A working group will be talking with communities throughout the region to gather information in a series of workshops and public conversations during the n

This open letter was posted on the What’s On Invers facebook page. An open letter to the people of Southland, New Zealand Kia ora, A few years ago, my wife and I decided to move from Albuquerque, NM in the USA to Invercargill, New Zealand with our two sons. We had been discussing an international […

State-of-the-art robotic technology is now operational at Alliance Group’s Dannevirke plant as the co-operative focuses on introducing processing innovation across its operations. The primal/middle cutting machinery is part of a $10.6m investment programme in the plant, which also included a reconfi