When 570 signatures were delivered to the Invercargill City Council on Thursday as part of a petition against Three Waters, a strong passionate crowd packed the lobby to back up their concerns. Deputy Mayor Nobby Clark was there to accept the petition on behalf of Groundswell and the Invercargill Ci

The first set of high-resolution 3D mapping data for the Oban area of Rakiura Stewart Island has been released publicly as part of the Provincial Growth Fund-LiDAR elevation data capture project. LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light in the f

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She’s known as Mrs Pickles but when you win an Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer award, it’s important everyone knows your real name. Josie Robinson and her husband Gus are the owners of Robbies Pickles in Gore, and the man who the business is named after is actually a former RAF pilot from WWII

The Department of Conservation will consult with the Rakiura/Stewart Island community on plans to deal with a rat incursion on predator-free Ulva Island/Te Wharawhara. An incursion response after a rat was detected in February, has failed to remove all rats, which have now spread to other parts of t

Invercargill’s and New Zealand’s newest hotel is rapidly taking shape. The whatsoninvers.nz team were taken for an in depth look behind the scenes of The Langland’s Hotel with ILT Communications manager Emma Hunter and Marketing and Innovation executive Angee Shand. All we can say is that this lates

South’s health crisis could be lost to Govt health reforms – Sapere report likely to fall on deaf ears – Simmonds Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds fears critically needed action to improve the South’s ailing health services will not be addressed with sufficient urgency as the Government’s health refor

Invercargill’s new museum rebuild has just got smaller as councillors try to trim back planned expenditure before the rates are set for the year on June 28. At the Performance, Policy and Partnerships committee yesterday, councillors voted 6-3 to opt for the smaller 3500sqm build rather than the 415