Police Update:  Police can confirm a 19-year-old man has died after getting in to difficulties while swimming in Kawarau River this afternoon. Earlier reports that the man was recovered from Lake Dunstan were incorrect. A second person who also got into difficulty made it to shore safely. Emergency

Police are appealing for sightings of a stolen vehicle which failed to stop for Police in Invercargill last night. The vehicle, a green 1989 Ford Telstar hatchback, registration number OK 934, was reported stolen from a residential Invercargill property on the evening of 7 December. Police are looki

Police are in attendance at a fatal crash on Milton Highway in Clutha that occurred at approximately 9:20am with SH1 down to one lane, just north of Patterson Road. One person has died and another has been airlifted to hospital with critical injuries,  Senior Sergeant Craig Brown said. The Serious C

Five weeks out from the start of the 2017 Toyota Racing Series, Invercargill driver Brendon Leitch has the luxury of knowing he will be on the start line along with many of  the up and coming stars of world motorsport when the series gets underway in Christchurch over the weekend of 14/15 January. “

The Invercargill Netball Centre (INC) will be represented at national age group tournaments in 2017. For the past four years, INC joined forces with Eastern and Central netball centres to create cluster teams to compete at both the New Zealand U17 and U19 championships. pic supplied INC president Ma

No shortage of big words here but also some very important words as the world around us changes at an alarming speed. This will be well worth investing a wee bit of time with. What do nanotechnology, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and robotics have in common, and, more importantly, how do t

Could this sort of technology be a goer for Southland??….the Waituna Lagoon springs to mind. Latest technology adopted by Fonterra and the Department of Conservation’s (DOC) partnership Living Water, is proving a success in cleaning up water ways. Developed by Massey University, the floating treatme

Leaders in government, the local dairy industry and the science community have gathered to mark progress at the site of the new Southern Dairy Hub. Work is underway to convert the site – at Makarewa, just north of Invercargill – from a sheep farm and a beef farm into a working dairy farm and centre