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Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued For Clutha, Southland, and Fiordland

News - Feb 13, 2023

“Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued for Southern South Island – Westland, Central Otago, Southern Lakes, Clutha, Southland, and Fiordland. The Meteorological Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for several regions in the southern South Island, including Westland, Central Otago, Southern Lak

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Fatal Crash, North Makarewa

Featured - Feb 12, 2023

One person has died in a single car crash in Southland overnight. Emergency services were called to North Makarewa Grove Bush Road near the intersection with Tussock Creek Road about 1am. The sole occupant of the car died at the scene. The Serious Crash Unit attended, and the circumstances of the cr

Police, Customs, NZDF Recover $500 Million Cocaine at Sea

Featured - Feb 11, 2023

New Zealand authorities have dealt a significant blow to an international criminal syndicate’s operation after intercepting 3.2 tonnes of cocaine afloat in the ocean. Under Operation Hydros, New Zealand Police, working in partnership with New Zealand Customs Service and the New Zealand Defence Force

Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Beach Racing

Burt Munro Challenge - Feb 11, 2023

Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Beach Racing, thanks to Vanessa Adcock Photography. Related: Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Bluff Hill Climb Bluff Hill Climb Crashes Lead to Hospitalisation of Five at Burt Munro Challenge

One Dead, One Injured in Early Morning Crash

News - Feb 11, 2023

A fatal crash occurred early this morning on Main Street in Mataura, leaving one person dead and another injured. The crash, which involved two vehicles, happened near the intersection with Cardigan Bay Road at around 3:30 am. Emergency services were quick to respond to the scene and transport the i

News - Feb 13, 2023 Severe Thunderstorm Watch Issued For Clutha, Southland, and Fiordland

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Burt Munro Challenge - Feb 12, 2023 Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Street Racing by Mike Sanford

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90 Seconds+ - Feb 12, 2023 90 Seconds+ With Invercargill City Mayor Nobby Clark – Special Guest by Mike & About

Burt Munro Challenge - Feb 12, 2023 Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Speedway & Sprints by Mike Sanford

Featured - Feb 12, 2023 Fatal Crash, North Makarewa by Mike Sanford

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What Funerals Reveal About Our Lives

Health & Wellbeing - Jun 28, 2026

What Makes us Really Cry at Funerals Why the tears that fall reflect the conversations we haven't had, the relationships we haven't healed, the priorities we've forgotten, and the life we're still creating. "I am more of a funeral kind of

Friday Flashback - Invercargill Certified As A City

Old Invercargill - Jun 26, 2026

Invercargill was raised to city status on March 1, 1930, not that it occasioned much in the way of fanfare. There were certainly no overbrimming public celebrations, perhaps because the Depression was biting. The public reports were nothing if not sedate: "Having obtained within its narrow borders a population

New IYP President Bets on Southland

Business - Jun 23, 2026

Invercargill Young Professionals has a new president, and she wants young people to stop quietly leaving Southland. Breea Scully has been appointed president of Invercargill Young Professionals (IYP), with the committee's focus squarely on making the region somewhere people actually want to stay. "There is a lot

Refurbished Laptops Boost Southland Youth

Education - Jun 23, 2026

Three hundred and twenty refurbished laptops are heading to Southland schools and youth organisations, courtesy of a deal between Great South, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and a handful of local groups. MBIE is donating retired devices from its own fleet. The laptops will be split across the