The SOUTHLAND BUSKERS FESTIVAL has been a highlight in Invercargill events calendar for the past six years, and we’re back January 28-31st with our seventh. We’re one of the region’s most accessible and entertaining events, bringing laughs and gasps to Invercargill each summer via a performance line

We Live in Interesting Times. No, amend that, we are living in explosive times ! From out of nowhere terror reigned down on Paris over the weekend. Reports now show that terrorists launched attacks brought their trade of misery to several venues in that fine city. Attacks on places where people, ord

Long time local lighting company Hishon Lighting are closing their retail store to focus on the commercial side of the business and to make more room for Southland Real Estate bringing their rentals department into the same building. The business started life as Hishon Brothers – the Shop With The L

Here is a fun Christmas advert from overseas that the entire family will enjoy. The U.K. supermarket chain Sainsbury’s shared this season’s ad featuring a sweet but mischievous cat named Mog who nearly ruins Christmas for her family. After Mog nearly burns down her home through an increasingly unfor

Young Reflections have opened their annual Christmas pop up book shop in Cambridge Arcade and its full of dairies, calendars, kids books, adults reading (fiction & non fiction) cook books and more. Adult non fiction. Baby, recipe and health books. Crafty books. Dairies. Letter writing sets. Adult fi

Police are urging members of the public to secure their properties after a number of burglaries in the Invercargill area. It appears thieves are targeting residential addresses and gaining entry into houses or garages. It appears most of the burglaries from garages have occurred overnight where the

The next World shearing and wool handling championships will be held in Invercargill on February 9-11, 2017. The event, expected to attract competitors from about 30 countries, will be held at ILT Stadium Southland and be known as Golden Shears World Championships Southland 2017. The event is held e

The community has got behind the big Fireworks & Music Festival at Rugby Park, Invercargill on Saturday 21 November. So much so that organiser Peter Kett has been bowled over by the kind offers and assistance he has received to make the event happen. “The number of people and organisations that have