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Invercargill City Properties Ltd and HW Richardson Group have formed a joint venture company to assist with future development opportunities for Invercargill’s city centre, the Invercargill City Council released in a statement. The Chairman of Invercargill City Holdings Ltd, the City Council’s holdi

Budget 2017 is investing $59.2 million over four years to ensure all road ambulance call outs are double crewed, says Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie. “This is great news for New Zealand, and especially great news for Southland. Double crewing all road ambulance call outs will help ensure patients are p

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

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 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

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

The Bluff Oyster & Food Festival which takes place in Bluff this Saturday (May 20), will have no gate sales, as tickets for the popular event have sold out. As always the iconic Bluff Oyster will be the star attraction with around 20,000 of the delicacy on hand. Food stalls will also provide other s

Katrina Thomas from western Southland has won the Dairy Women’s Network’s Dairy Community Leadership Award. The award was presented at the Dairy Women’s Network’s annual conference held in Queenstown. Awarded to an unsung heroes of rural communities it recognises the voluntary role dairy farming wom