The 17th ILT Southland Secondary Schools’ Sports Awards ceremony is on Friday November 4 at 7:30pm at the Ascot Park Hotel. The guest speaker will be Southland’s New Zealand representative rower Genevieve Behrent, who won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Southland Secondary Schools Spor

The Invercargill City Council and city centre retailers are gearing up for an afternoon of Trick or Treating fun tomorrow (Saturday 29 October) between 1-4pm. The family event is to give primary aged children, or younger, the opportunity to dress up for Halloween and enjoy Trick or Treating fun in a

We will celebrate the many impressive, innovative and creative achievements of our Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme students, on Thursday, 27 October at Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill. At the start of 2016, 138 students from James Hargest College, Aparima College, Mt Aspiring

pic-whatsoninvers.nz Invercargill City Council adopted its 2015-2016 Annual Report at the Inaugural Council Meeting held this week Chairman of the Finance and Policy Committee, Deputy Mayor Darren Ludlow said the Plan showed a good result for the year. “It received a clear audit report from Audit NZ

NZHerald Business Desk Children’s clothing retailer Pumpkin Patch has been tipped into receivership by its lenders and appointed voluntary administrators after failing to reinvent itself in the face of shrinking sales and too much debt. Pumpkin Patch Invers – pic whatsoninvers.nz Auckland-based Pump

Southland’s Tommy Foggo has been celebrated for his outstanding community contribution, as part of the Graeme Dingle Foundation’s 2016 Excellence Awards, held at Auckland’s War Memorial Museum on Wednesday night. Tommy Foggo receiving his award. Photo: whatsoninvers.nz Foggo was honoured with an Out

Just before 5pm on Tuesday October 25th, a burglary was reported to Police where a large number of military-style semi-automatic firearms and a significant amount of ammunition was taken from a  Maitland Street, Dunedin address. A total of 28 firearms were reported as stolen, comprising of five rifl

6:45pm Tues 25th October Police UPDATE Name release Wallactown crash Police can now release the name of the man who died in the crash in Wallacetown yesterday. He was 56-year-old Donald Stanley Hammond from Invercargill. Police’s investigation into the crash is ongoing. Police’s thoughts are with Mr