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Blind and Vision Impaired Residents Struggling With Bus Service

Community - Feb 11, 2023

Vision impaired and blind residents in Invercargill have gone without audio announcements on public transport for the past two years, and want the service reinstated for their safety. Speaking to Invercargill City councillors at the Infrastructure Committee yesterday, Blind Citizens New Zealand Sout

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Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Bluff Hill Climb

Burt Munro Challenge - Feb 10, 2023

Some action photos from the Bluff Hill climb on Thursday, thanks to Vanessa Adcock Photography. Related: Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Beach Racing Bluff Hill Climb Crashes Lead to Hospitalisation of Five at Burt Munro Challenge

Bluff Hill Climb Crashes Lead to Hospitalization of Five at Burt Munro Challenge

Burt Munro Challenge - Feb 10, 2023

The 16th annual Burt Munro Challenge took a turn for the worse yesterday when two separate crashes resulted in five people being taken to Southland Hospital with injuries. The Bluff Hill Climb event saw riders collide with spectators, leaving one person in critical condition, three in serious condit

Steel Shooter Suffers Devastating Injury

News - Feb 09, 2023

The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel’s international shooting star George Fisher has been ruled out of the 2023 netball season with a serious knee injury. Medical imaging has revealed Fisher suffered a rupture to her ACL and an associated fracture during the Steel’s preseason encounter with the NSW S

Tuatapere Man Faces Charges for Tree Poisoning

News - Feb 09, 2023

Update: A man from Tuatapere, Andy Pender, has come forward as the individual responsible for poisoning over 200 pine trees on council property in a Southland town. When asked for comment, Pender admitted, “I am the guilty party.” The police had announced the previous day that a 54-year-old resident

Community - Feb 11, 2023 Blind and Vision Impaired Residents Struggling With Bus Service

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Featured - Feb 11, 2023 Serious Crash, Main Street, Mataura by Mike Sanford

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News - Feb 11, 2023 Police Seek Witnesses to Suspicious Fire by Mike Sanford

News - Feb 10, 2023 Residential Rates Rises of 6% to 13% Proposed in Draft Annual Plan by Mike Sanford

Burt Munro Challenge - Feb 10, 2023 Action Photos From Burt Munro Challenge Bluff Hill Climb 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