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City Council They May Impose Water Use Restrictions

Councils - Feb 01, 2023

Invercargill district residents may see restrictions on hosing and sprinklers as soon as next week. Although rain is forecast, the overall outlook for February is for dry conditions to continue, meaning it is increasingly probable that water restrictions will be imposed in Invercargill and Bluff. In

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Prohibited Fire Season For Southland

Community - Feb 01, 2023

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has declared a prohibited fire season for Southland as of 8 am Wednesday 1 February 2023, until further notice. A prohibited fire season means a total ban on outdoor fires. Southland District Manager Julian Tohiariki says due to La Nina conditions, Southland is experie

Crunchy Owner Thriving On New Challenges

Business - Feb 01, 2023

Invercargill’s Crunchy business is growing by the day – and by night the owner quietly works away engineering new developments for his company. Benji Biswas started Crunchy selling micro greens and edible flowers from his urban vertical farm in a garage three years ago. Initially his business suppli

Invercargill Mayor and Councillors Updated On Emergency Response Roles

Community - Feb 01, 2023

Emergency Management Southland was invited to speak with Invercargill City councillors at its first meeting for the year on Tuesday 31st January. Group manager and controller Simon Mapp gave councillors a rundown on what their roles would be in the community if a state of emergency was declared in t

Positivity In The City For New Hawthorndale Care Village

The Hawthorndale Care Village Charitable Trust working group member Paddy O’Brien with Helen Robinson, project manager. Photo

Community - Jan 31, 2023

It has been a long time in the making, but work on the Hawthorndale Care Village is finally underway. And in three months time tenders will go out for the civil, residential and commercial aspects of the build, which is expected to create 300 jobs for Invercargill, using multiple contractors. The Ha

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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