Southland

Canadian James Piccoli has been one of the biggest contributors on this year’s SBS Bank Tour of Southland and he was finally rewarded with a stage win on the iconic Bluff Hill yesterday. Piccoli (Kia Motors-Ascot Park Hotel) has been prominent this week, including a second placing on Coronet Peak on

Twelve months ago the New Plymouth rider won the same 138km stage from Mossburn to Coronet Peak, only to see his ambitions smashed to pieces the next day on the way to the iconic Bluff Hill finish. It would be tempting to use a word like redemption for Torckler, but remember this is a rider […]

Aucklander Roman van Uden was handed the perfect birthday present by his PowerNet team mates when they claimed victory in the 2017 SBS Bank Tour of Southland prologue Sunday 29th October. As first rider across the line in the 4.2km team trial trial around Invercargill’s Queens Park, van Uden will we

The clock is ticking down to what will be a big but unofficial Invers reunion next month. The Tax Return, a reunion of former Inland Revenue Department staff in Invercargill is booked in for the weekend of 10th and 11th November. Organiser Tracy Kilkelly says  they already have well over 100 confirm

James Hunter describes the last six months as a roller coaster but he has no plans of getting off anytime soon. The Southland Sharks’ big man came from nowhere at the start of last season’s National Basketball League to earn selection in the New Zealand Select team, followed by the Tall Blacks’ FIBA

Adventure Development Limited (ADL) will soon be delivering innovative and flexible Youth Primary Mental Health Brief Intervention Services (YPMHBIS) in the Southern district. Southern DHB announced yesterday that ADL has been selected as the preferred provider for the delivery of the service in pri

Police have arrested one person in relation to a dairy robbery that occured on Coutts Road, Gore around 7:30pm Thursday, 5 October, 2017. A 15-year-old male has appeared in youth court on charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated wounding. Police are still looking to locate two other males in rel

Promising young rider Marshall Erwood managed to hold the U13 yellow jersey from start to finish to be the best placed Southlander in the Cycling Southland-run three- day cycle tour. More than 105 riders from around the country took part in the six-stage 34 th Yunca Junior Tour of Southland held ove