Southland

WW2 reached Gore’s Main Street with tragic reality 75 years ago, on Thursday 11 June 1942? The local Emergency Precautions Service (similar to todays Civil Defence) organized an evacuation exercise for the businesses and schools of the town. Censorship was in place and only the facts were reported i

Life has not got any easier for WBOP Magic after they were outclassed 78-59 by Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in the opening Super Sunday clash in Auckland today. Pushed closely in their last outing against SKYCITY Mystics, there were no such problems for the southerners today in continuing their u

Rower Genevieve Behrent was named the ILT Senior Sportsperson of the Year during the ILT Southland Sports Awards held tonight (June 9) in front of a capacity “Sold Out” crowd, at the Ascot Park Hotel in Invercargill. Behrent and Rebecca Scown were the first athletes in New Zealand Rowing history to

Police issue a correction due their error with ages as previously reported. A 20 year old man has been charged with murder following the death of a 19 year old man in Invercargill this morning. This story has variously claimed the attacker was 30, or 20 as police press releases have changed.  It has

Dog Island’s rich history and distinctive environment will be preserved for years to come, thanks to the vision of a special partnership committed to the island’s future. The restoration and ongoing conservation of the remote Dog Island was marked by the agreement of an ecological plan this week bet

Southern Police are attending a crash on State Highway One, near the intersection of the Lorne-Dacre Rd involving three cars and moderately injuring two people. Two other people were involved but are uninjured. Emergency services were called to the scene, between Invercargill and Gore, at 1:48pm thi

We can’t control the weather but we can adjust our own driving to deal with it. Southlanders shouldn’t be caught out by the weather – we know it gets wet, cold and windy on occasion, all year round, says Senior Constable Kelvin Templeton, Riverton Police Station. There is ample signage on the roads,

HW Richardson Group Property CEO and Group director Scott O’Donnell along with his wife of 22 years, Jocelyn (Joc) O’Donnell, Group director and Transport World founder, both have a passion and desire to see their home town Invercargill become a city everyone can be proud of. The pair were born, rai