Southland Farm Machinery the local John Deere tractor franchise has burn down in a huge fire on early late Saturday early Sunday morning. Fire Service southern communications shift manager Brent Dunn said we had many calls from the public reporting the fire, seven fire engines and up to 26 firefight

A much needed boost for the Southland dairy industry with news out  that a new dairy processing plant is to be built in the province. Mataura Valley Milk have announced plans to build a $200m  high tech processing plant at McNab, 7k’s north of Gore. State owned China Animal Husbandry is taking a sta

pic – whatsoninvers   The Invercargill City Council has been awarded the 2016 Project of the Year Award for moving its Land Information Memorandum (LIM) from a paper based to electronic system. The awarded was presented at the annual Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) Inf

The first step on what might be a long and challenging journey has been taken with the presentation of the Southland Regional Development Strategy to a host of local business, community and civic leaders in Invers. The strategy aims to have Southland on a much healthier and prosperous footing over t

Southern Police are reminding motorists that with the winter season now upon us, extra care needs to be taken on our roads. District Road Policing Manager Inspector Tania Baron says, so far, much of the country has had a mild winter, but the Southern region is now well and truly feeling the winter [

Here it is Alice Fraser’s song that won her the top award at the NZ Gold Guitar Awards in Gore back in June…excellent reading of Tami Neilson’s “Lonely”……Go Alice ! Mal at the music desk.

Yes, Southern Netball icon Robyn Broughton is far from done with coaching. The coach with an illustrious record of success has been sought by top UK club Mavericks. This is how they announced the appointment to the netball world. Photo: supplied Mavericks Netball are delighted to announce the appoin

Invers based meat processor Alliance Group have dispatched their new market-ready packs for launch in China next month. The products will be launched in the retail and food service sectors. Initially, the Pure South / Grand Farm co-branded lamb products will be targeted to the upper end of the marke