Southland

Southland Hospital’s new $2 million MRI scanner is now in place and ready to scan its first patients today (Wednesday 30 September), Southern DHB Chief Executive Chris Fleming said today. The new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, which is manufactured in the Netherlands by Philips Healthcare

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) Cookery students and tutors volunteered their time and talents over the weekend to cook and package around 425 meals for Salvation Army’s Invercargill Food Bank. The collaboration was a result of a large amount of frozen meat recently donated. On Saturday 26th

Wyndham and Mataura Police are seeking witnesses to a serious crash that occurred on the the Edendale Woodlands Highway (SH1) near Edendale last night. Emergency services received a report of the crash between a van a car at around 6:50pm. Three of the four occupants of the car were transported to S

The 20/21 sports fishing season is almost upon us and this season is not one to be missed. Southland residents are spoilt with an abundance of rivers, streams and lakes that are close to main centres, have easy access and healthy trout populations. If you are a beginner angler there is no better pla

Seven war memorials will soon receive some extra special treatment, thanks to funding from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF). Invercargill City Council has received $680,000 from PGF for the restoration work on the important monuments. The Council applied for the funding when PGF offered the one-time

Police are seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery at the Pomona Street Discount Dairy, Invercargill on Saturday night. At around 8:45pm, two men have approached the store and one man presented a metal bar at the store worker, who has run away and called Police. The offenders then entered the sto

Champions were crowned in categories ranging from under 13 to 85-plus in the Outdoor H&J Smith Southland Road and Time Trial Championships that took place over the weekend. The time trial took place on Saturday, with riders facing rather challenging weather conditions as they set off on their solo e

The first 11km section of the flood-damaged Lower Hollyford Road will be repaired. A meeting of key stakeholders including Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, Southland District Council, Ngāi Tahu and the Department of Conservation agreed this morning that work on this would begin as soon as possible.