The Bluff History Group will conduct the first ever guided tour of the older part of the Greenpoint Cemetery on Sunday 6 November. The tour, part of N.Z. Cemeteries Week, commences at the Lost at Sea Memorial, an area which was unveiled in August 1990 and was a project promoted by the Bluff Communit

Three lucky Lotto players will be enjoying a midweek windfall after each winning $333,333 with Lotto First Division in tonight’s live Lotto draw. The winning tickets were sold at Four Square Newfield in Invercargill and on MyLotto to players from Auckland and Palmerston North. Powerball was not stru

Sonya Chalmers has been involved in many special celebrations in people’s lives, but after 28 years with Michael Hill Jeweller, she decided it was time for a new challenge. The Invercargill manager will have her last day at the new store in Invercargill Central on Saturday, and admits she will be sa

Invercargill’s Santa Parade just gets better every year, and organisers are busy getting ready for a family gala afternoon to follow the main event. Event manager Alice Pottinger said the original 3km circuit around the city would be back with floats and entertainers, so that all the groups that mis

Councils around the country were once responsible for traffic enforcement, and Invercargill’s Glenn Cockroft has a museum filled with much of the old memorabilia. (Watch the full video of Mike & About tour of this incredible place). Traffic patrol cars, the first fitted telephones, uniforms, badges,

The Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education (ANZRME) 44th Annual Conference is coming to the Southern Institute of Technology in Invercargill this week; the three-day event will facilitate the sharing of the latest in contemporary music education research, as well as p

Riverton-born, Australian-based entertainer Jim Cooper returns to the south at the end of October for two shows. He was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for early 1960s Invercargill band The Courtelles, who are believed to be the first Southland band recorded on vinyl, in 1963. Jim Cooper come

Job losses are on the cards at SIT, as the Government comes clean on how it proposes to balance the books of its embattled industry training mega-merger Te Pukenga, Invercargill MP and National’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Penny Simmonds says. “Te Pukenga, which now runs the country’s polytechn