Invercargill City Council’s new mayor, Nobby Clark, wants his first official act to be one of thanks. The polls for the local government election 2022 closed on Saturday and preliminary results showed Clark was the clear winner of the mayoralty with 7260 votes, almost 3000 ahead of the next candidat

Four performances in the top seven earned important Olympic qualifying points without podium reward for New Zealand riders on day three of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in France. Closest was Southland’s WorldTour professional rider Corbin Strong who was edged out by millimetres in the f

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited today revised the forecast for its 2022/23 New Zealand milk collections to 1,480 million kilograms of milk solids (kgMS), down from its previous forecast of 1,495 million kgMS. Fonterra last reduced its 2022/23 milk collections forecast in early September. Fonterr

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is hopeful for settlement of a collective agreement with the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) after receiving recommendations made by mediator/facilitator Graeme Colgan. This is an outcome of the facilitated mediation process that took place between

Saturday night will be rock n roll night as we celebrate the Platinum anniversary of  the Southland Rock n Roll Hall of Fame at the Ascot Park Hotel. The show was to feature 4 of Southland’s top bands from the 60’s and 70’s but sadly they’ve had to drop to three due to Dave Kennedy […]

New Zealand’s youngest mayor is also the Gore District’s new mayor. Twenty-three-year-old tech entrepreneur Ben Bell was declared elected as Gore District Mayor today with 2,371 votes to incumbent Tracy Hicks’ 2,363 after special votes were counted. There will be five new faces when the Council meet

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The New Zealand men’s team pursuit finished a blink away from qualifying for the bronze medal ride on the opening day of the UCI Track cycling World Championships in Paris. After qualifying fifth fastest, they were chasing the fourth fastest time in the first round of the 4000m event to earn a ride