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Southland Boys U19 Representative Basketball Team #1

Sport + Motorsport - May 18, 2017

Congratulations to Southland Boys U19 Representative Basketball Team has earned the #1 seed from the region (not Otago!) and will be going to nationals the first week of June. Show your support and get along to their fundraising Quiz night on Wednesday 24th May.

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Young Man Seriously Injured After Becoming Trapped In Farm Machinery

News - May 17, 2017

A young man from Central Otago is in hospital following an on farm accident yesterday. Senior Constable Darren Cox from Omakau Police says emergency services were called to a farm near Omakau after the local man became trapped in a hay bailer. Darren Cox says he was cut free by Fire staff and flown

Formal Opening Celebrated For The Pantry In South City

Community - May 16, 2017

The South City and greater Invercargill community celebrated the formal opening of The Pantry, on the corner of Grace and Ness Sts, on Saturday – the milestone was celebrated with a powhiri, community barbecue and local entertainment with Invercargill deputy Mayor Darren Ludlow cutting the ribbon on

Construction Underway Of Chinese Gardens

News - May 16, 2017

Construction has started on Invercargill’s new $600,000 Chinese Gardens deep within Queens Park. Being built beside the indoor Winter Gardens, they are also near our existing Japanese Gardens for sister city Kumagaya. Check out the view from our What’s On Invers eye in the sky! Invercargill City Co

Farmers Set To Benefit From New High Tech Weather Stations

News - May 16, 2017

We all know that Southland covers a vast land area and the weather can be at best unpredictable. So here’s a good story about how farmers can get precise weather info for their farming operations. Any Southland farmers signing up to get one of these weather gizmo’s ? Fonterra farmers will come toget

Sport + Motorsport - May 18, 2017 Southland Boys U19 Representative Basketball Team #1

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Entertainment - May 18, 2017 Grand Ole Civic To Become Country Capital For A Night by Mike Sanford

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May 18, 2017 New Company Formed For Future Of Invercargill’s City Centre by Mike Sanford

News - May 17, 2017 Southland To Benefit From Double Crewing For Road Ambulance Call Outs by Malcolm Gayfer

News - May 17, 2017 Young Man Seriously Injured After Becoming Trapped In Farm Machinery by Malcolm Gayfer

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Southland Science Fair Turns 40

News - Aug 13, 2026

Two hundred and fifty student projects. Forty years. And for the first time, the sponsors are competing too. The NZAS Southland Science and Technology Fair opens to the public this Wednesday, marking four decades of the region's biggest student science event. Running August 11 to 14 at a

Southland Bucks National House Price Slump

Property - Aug 11, 2026

Southland is holding up where most of the country isn't. Seven months into 2026, the region has recorded a 3.1% increase in average home values — one of just three regions in positive territory nationally, alongside Canterbury (1.3%) and Otago (2.8%). Invercargill is up 0.1%

Milford Millions to Fund Southland Toilet Upgrades

News - Aug 10, 2026

Southland District Council is spending its $1 million Milford Sound windfall on public toilets. Council agreed at its meeting on Wednesday to direct the money — received from selling its two percent shareholding in Milford Sound Tourism Limited — toward renewing and upgrading public toilets along the main tourist route through Southland

Nightcaps Teacher's Songs Get Animated

News - Aug 10, 2026

A Nightcaps music teacher's songs, written nearly two decades ago and largely sitting in a drawer, are now animated videos watched by children across the country — thanks to a collaboration with SIT's screen arts programme in Invercargill. Nicky Fryer, a teacher aide and music teacher at

Soap Pranks Cost Council $5000 a Year

News - Aug 09, 2026

Someone keeps turning Invercargill's Gala St fountain into a bubble bath — and it's costing ratepayers more than $5000 a year to clean up. The soap suds prank, a recurring nuisance at the city centre fountain, requires staff to neutralise the foam with vinegar around 50 times