Southland business leaders have thrown their support behind the $3.5 billion data centre at Makarewa. Southland Mayor Rob Scott and the Southland Business Chamber are excited about the new Datagrid development, and the opportunities it will bring to the region. Former Mayor of Invercargill Nobby Clark backed it from

Invercargill is getting its own international undersea cable — the first to land anywhere in the South Island. Datagrid New Zealand has signed contracts with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and OMS Group to build the Tasman Ring Network, a 2,300 km optical submarine cable running between Invercargill and Melbourne. ASN

Southland's Seth Morrow has done it again. The 18-year-old swept both motos at round seven of the Australian ProMX Championships at Conondale, Queensland on Sunday — his second consecutive 1-1 result in the MX3 development class. Fastest in qualifying and first across the line in both races at the

Paying for groceries with your face is coming to New Zealand — and it is closer than you might think. EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that let shoppers pay using their face or palm, no card required. The terminals can also verify a customer'

A Southland player won Lotto Second Division on Wednesday night — the third time in a week the region has turned up on the winners' list. There has been a pattern for Southland of three in a row then a draught, will this Saturday make it four in a row?

Stags Day is on Saturday — the 250th game between Southland and Otago at Rugby Park, and every pub in town is falling in behind it. King Kapisi & Friends headline The Shack from 6:30pm. Waxy's, Speight's and Ascot Sports Bar are locking down the after-parties,

Che Fu is bringing Navigator back to life — all of it — and Invercargill is first cab off the rank. The New Zealand music icon will kick off a ten-date nationwide tour at the Civic Theatre on Wednesday October 7, celebrating 25 years since Navigator debuted at number one on the

A Southland seafood company has been fined $39,000 for illegally shifting thousands of live oysters and mussels into the Bluff area — repeatedly, and in full knowledge of the rules. Fresh is Best NZ Limited was sentenced in the Invercargill District Court today on 13 charges under the Biosecurity Act.