Southland Police are appealing for information to help identify a man seen near a vehicle shortly before it was stolen. The Toyota Hilux, registration AZQ526, was stolen from Cairnard Road, Fairlight at about 11am on Sunday 25 March. It has a wooden dog box and a silver tool box bolted to the deck.

Action photos from the “Oak Tree Inn” Popotunoa Rally Sprint. The event was run by the Eastern Southland Car Club at Popotunoa (Near Clinton) on Saturday March 24th. The event was held in perfect weather conditions. The competitors and their passengers completed 6 runs over the course of the day, ea

The Invercargill City Council is working with multiple agencies to address the issue of asbestos discovered at Ocean Beach, Bluff. Following tests by Public Health South, it has been determined that coastal erosion has caused what could be a former landfill site to spill asbestos onto the foreshore

A search and rescue operation is underway in Fiordland National Park after a 69-year-old man was reported missing this morning. Police were called at 10.42am by a man who said he had become separated from his hunting partner, and had not seen him since yesterday morning. The missing man is an experi

Para cycling head performance coach Stu MacDonald has labelled Southland athlete Hannah Pascoe’s international debut as one of the highlights of New Zealand’s track world championship campaign. Blind athlete Hannah Pascoe and sighted pilot Nina Wollaston only came together as a tandem combination la

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has determined that all cattle on properties infected with the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis will be culled, and will be working with farmers to do that from today. “The depopulation of entire herds on all 28 Infected Properties (IPs) in New Zealand is a c

The race for the 2018 Galbraith Shield title is about to get underway as six teams look to be crowned Southland premier club rugby champions. We take a look at how each of the teams in the Go Bus Senior Rugby teams are shaping up before the first game kicks-off on March 27. Who are […]

A successful and busy time for Southland athlete Sam Colyer is about to get even busier. The talented leaper is preparing to head to the United States at the start of April to compete in three events in as many weeks. Colyer will contest the Arcadia Invitational, a national high school meet, the Wes