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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

Cartoon of the Day: Thanks to Garrick Tremain. https://garricktremain.nz/cartoons

Two inspiring Southland women have joined together to offer a ‘Spring Into Wellbeing Expo’ for the community to thrive after a tumultuous few years. Katie Oliver and Kate Watkinson have brought together many natural health practitioners to offer their expertise, products and services at the Expo on

The 39th Yunca Junior Tour of Southland took place over the weekend, with close to 140 of the country’s top junior cyclists taking to the roads around Invercargill and Bluff over three days and six stages. In the U13 girls race, Kendra Gray proved untouchable, taking out the yellow jersey, the Road

After almost eight years at the helm, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel and Netball South chief executive Lana Winders is calling full time. Winders will leave the organisation on 30 November to take up a role with family business, Forde Winders Shearing Contractors. “It is a deliberate reduction in w

Invercargill ratepayers are coming to grips with a city without long-serving mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt at the helm. He was ousted by first-term councillor and deputy mayor Nobby Clark in a decisive victory that was announced less than two hours after polls closed. It was a win that nearly didn’t happen

Environment Southland is welcoming five newly elected councillors. While these are the preliminary results, the special votes that are yet to be counted are unlikely to change the results. Newcomers in the Invercargill-Rakiura constituency are Phil Morrison, who was a member of the Regional Forum, a