A 19-year-old Central Otago man has been arrested and charged following the investigation into a fatal crash on Coates Road, Alexandra in August 2017. Around midnight on Thursday 10 August, 2017 Ravineel Avikash Sharma, a 19-year-old plumber from Alexandra, died in a single vehicle crash on Coates R
Canadian James Piccoli will seek to become just the fourth foreign winner in 61 years of the SBS Bank Tour of Southland on the final day of the 2017 edition. The Kia Motors-Ascot Park Hotel rider holds a 35sec lead over Michael Torckler (Blindz Direct) and 38sec on Michael Vink (Mike Greer Homes) ah
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
