Southland

Southland’s writers and readers are finally getting their own Festival thanks to a group of booklovers who believe it’s past time the region celebrated its rich literary heritage. Local writers are keen as mustard, and the organisers don’t want ticket prices to put off potential guests who’ve had a

A sunken boat has been removed from Deep Water Basin in Milford Sound. The boat sank on Monday 14 September following an on-board fire. Bad weather and road closures hampered attempts to refloat and remove the boat until Thursday, 8 October. To refloat the boat, divers attached nine 2 tonne lift bag

An Invercargill man fast approaching the grand age of 89 is about to teach us all a thing or two about keeping positive and active. Peter Grandiek is about to take on a 100k ride around Invercargill on his bike. The octogenarian will be on his pedals on Friday October 16 as a fundraiser for […]

The SIT Zero Fees Southland Sharks have named a powerful four-man squad for the Schick 3X3 Cup to be played at ILT Stadium Southland next month. The all-star squad features New Zealand 3X3 representatives Hyrum Harris and Alonzo Burton, together with Sharks fan favourite Dom Kelman-Poto and the retu

Top junior cycling talent from across New Zealand competed in the Yunca Junior Tour of Southland over the weekend, with a revamped course challenging riders with six stages spread over three days. Rather than be based mostly in and around Invercargill, the route took riders to different parts of Sou

If you notice anything odd with your power supply, call us. That’s the message from PowerNet in the follow up to a power surge that affected parts of South Invercargill late last month. The outage occurred on Sunday 20 September and affected 97 customers in the Kew/Kingswell areas, causing household

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