Highly acclaimed international soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is returning to Invercargill for a one off performance. Arguably our most prolific artist in the world of opera and classical music will perform a special recital celebrating the elegance of the Classical and Romantic eras in March next year

When you look at a piece of origami art, you probably see a crane, an owl, a butterfly or a fish. Lexus saw a whole car. Lexus UK re-created its IS sedan in an unusual medium: cardboard. Inspired by the art of origami, the recyclable sculpture required 1,700 pieces of cardboard, each one precision-s

Another example of the many building and construction projects going on around Invers at the moment. No, it’s not a biggie as such but will become vitally important for drivers. It’s the new roundabout on The Crescent / Leven St corner. Always a tricky one we think any way as far as the rules of […]

Southland  Sports Car Club Clubmans Racing that was held on Sunday September 20th. Clubmans racing is mostly local competitors that compete in a wide variety of  cars and can at times see some very close racing. The weather was kind to them also ! The next race meeting at Teretonga is on Sunday Nove

Following up our recent story on new building projects around the city we decided to have a wander around the inner city to see for ourselves what was going on. Several people pointed out a couple of new shops in town. One was the new fudge shop, notioNZ   on the Dee – Don St corner. […]

There was a smaller field in this race , 17 cars faced the starter. There was some that dropped out during the race due to either mechanical failure or through  race damage.   John Wadsworth and Wayne Croft from Blenheim were well through the race and had the bad luck to have an incident in their ve

The one hour endurance race was the first round of the South Island one hour race series. It was  held at Teretonga Park on Saturday 19th September. There was a large field of 41 competitors and it made for some close racingover the one hour period. There was some rain which made life interesting fo

The Waimatuku Southern Scenic Highland Pipe Band has pulled off a coup in the pipe band world by being invited to play at next years Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Wellington. Band spokesperson Ann Robbie says it wasn’t a simple process of being asked to play. Ann Robbie says the southern band was cho