Southland

Each year Alasdair MacKenzie flies home to Scotland from Southland for the Scottish Champs in July and World Pipe Band Champs held in Glasgow just last weekend there. Bit of a dream trip, was great to win the Scottish Champs but the Worlds is the one everyone wants and it’s great to take the title [

A 24-year-old man charged with stealing a police car and two police pistols has been remanded in custody after his first appearance in Invercargill District Court. Officers arrested Hori Gemmell in Te Tipua yesterday afternoon after a more than 36-hour search. Mr Gemmell has been charged with two co

Gore Police are appealing for sightings of a vehicle in relation to missing person Bryce Raimon Wilson. Bryce, 40, was last seen near the North Gore Dairy on Wednesday 14 August. The vehicle has a large scrape on the passenger side. Police and Bryce’s family have concerns for his wellbeing. If you h

Police have sized more than one million dollars in cash and assets, as well as meth with an estimated street value of $12 million. In a major drug bust yesterday, (Wednesday 7th August) more than 150 police staff raided houses and commercial properties in Auckland, Canterbury and Southland. The seiz

Today’s $5 million investment announcement in Telford is much needed following months of uncertainty, Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker says. “While it’s a shame this announcement did not happen in January, as a strong supporter of rural and regional New Zealand I welcome the good news,” Mr Walker s

Here is the Southland Stags team to play the opening game of the season against will be playing Northland at Rugby Park Stadium tomorrow night (Thursday 7th August), 7.35pm.kick off. get your tickets now! https://whatsoninvers.nz/events/sit-zero-fees-southland-stags-v-northland/ Ethan De Groot Flynn

The Chamber of Commerce are extremely disappointed with the Minister’s announcements on Thursday saying SIT has been completely undervalued – it’s clear while the Minister says the words “we’ve listened”, the reality couldn’t be further from the truth for Southland. We have repeatedly stated our cas

Invercargill leaders are upset with the government’s decision to merge the country’s polytechnics, saying it will kill off Southland’s already successful model. Stand up for SIT campaign director Carla Forbes said “The minister is deaf to Southland – it’s appalling the minister has ‘chosen’ not to l