Invercargill MP, and Minister for Tertiary Education and Science, Innovation and Technology, Penny Simmonds is travelling to the People's Republic of China this week, as she works to strengthen international education connections which will benefit regions like Southland. Minister Simmonds will be accompanied by a delegation of 11

ACT wants to strip the Department of Conservation of its authority over game animals and hand it to the Game Animal Council — with full funding to match. The party announced the policy at the Hunting & Wildlife Expo this weekend, pitching it as long-overdue recognition for hunters who have spent

Invercargill's new regional museum is being built with accessibility as a design requirement, not an afterthought. The Museum of Southland — due to open to the public in 2027, with construction scheduled to complete later this year — has been developed in consultation with Arts Access Aotearoa, Well Child Network,

Something went wrong at Greenpoint Cemetery. A councillor is angry about it. And no one will say what happened. Cr Andrea de Vries raised the incident at a council meeting on Tuesday, telling staff she had been contacted about a "pretty traumatic experience" at the cemetery near Bluff.

Monday 26 July marks the end of an era for Greyhound racing in the south, The Southland Greyhound Racing Club is holding its last ever meeting at its track at Ascot Park Racecourse. The end is thanks to the coalition Government imposing a ban on Greyhound Racing effective from 31

More than 60 trees in Invercargill's Town Belt are coming down starting next week — some of them planted 150 years ago. The felling is a direct consequence of October's extreme winds, when a 25-metre pine blew onto Elles Road traffic. Nobody was hurt, but councillors made

Two Auckland Powerball players split $40.2 million between them in Saturday night's draw — each walking away with $20.1 million. The winning tickets for draw 2606 were sold at Blockhouse Bay Postshop & Stationers in Auckland and online through MyLotto to another Auckland player. Each prize is

Two Southland drivers were caught over the alcohol limit this morning — not from drinking and driving, but from drinking the night before and assuming they were fine by morning. Both were pulled over in routine traffic stops for speeding. Both blew over the legal limit on evidential breath testing. One