Southland

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

The Riversdale and Balfour communities debated, danced, Mexican Waved, shouted and roared support for their teams in an epic War on the Waimea stage clash last Saturday night in the Riversdale Hall, netting the community an estimated $80,000. War on the Waimea was always going to be fierce between r

Dairy farmer Isaac Cook from Bulls/Rangitikei has set a world record benchmark by milking more than 5000 cows in 12 continuous hours. Fit4Farming programme was in place which encouraged the farmer to keep fit, train, and eat nutritiously.

A positive few months has seen Classic Motorcycle Mecca welcome over 10,000 visitors through its doors since opening in late November 2016. Transport World Director Joc O’Donnell says “It’s going well, the Burt Munro Challenge was a huge week for us. Since then on average we receive around 450 – 750

Chris Fleming has been appointed Southern DHB Chief Executive, Commissioner Kathy Grant announced today. The Nelson Marlborough Health Chief Executive had been seconded to the role of interim Chief Executive at Southern DHB since September, while the Commissioner team undertook an extensive recruitm

As New Zealand marks the one-year anniversary of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, Fonterra Co-operative Group is gearing up to take advantage of huge potential for its dairy products there, particularly cheese. Since the FTA was signed in December 2015, New Zealand has experienced 16

The Invercargill Netball Centre (INC) will be represented at national age group tournaments in 2017. For the past four years, INC joined forces with Eastern and Central netball centres to create cluster teams to compete at both the New Zealand U17 and U19 championships. pic supplied INC president Ma

Leaders in government, the local dairy industry and the science community have gathered to mark progress at the site of the new Southern Dairy Hub. Work is underway to convert the site – at Makarewa, just north of Invercargill – from a sheep farm and a beef farm into a working dairy farm and centre