Southland Strokeplay and South Island Strokeplay A high quality field contested the 54 hole Southland Strokeplay and Golf NZ South Island Strokeplay over the weekend at the Invercargill Golf Club played in perfect conditions. Carmeron Harlock (New Plymouth GC) took out the title in a play off with J

It’s 2022 – let’s hope this year brings us better things. Over the past 18 months, Southland’s economy has been hammered by Covid-19. Businesses have suffered and events have been cancelled. The closure of the border slashed $20 billion from NZ’s economy almost overnight with the loss of internation

This is a bolt from the blue! News in this evening that Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) has passed away. The big guy literally stormed on to the world stage in 1977 with the album Bat Out Of Hell. So many great songs on it all penned by the late Jim Steinman. As the statement […]

Makarewa could be the site of the country’s first carbon-neutral data centre, creating up to 25 new jobs for Southlanders – and consent has already been lodged for another one at the Clyde Dam in Central Otago. Datagrid is the company behind the Southland project, and has partnered with Meridian Ene

The Bluff Oyster & Food Festival will not be held in 2022. The festival organising committee met recently to discuss this year’s event amid the threat of Covid outbreaks and subsequent possible rapid changes to the traffic light settings and voted unanimously to cancel this year’s Festival which was

The team from Highways South advise that the Tay Street upgrade between Mary Street to Jackson Street, currently underway and originally planned to be completed on Friday 21st January. This has been extended to Wednesday the 26th January. Emergency services and residents will have access if required

Invercargill Central Limited is putting some contingency plans in place to safeguard its $165 million inner city redevelopment project. The community is also being invited to give feedback through the Invercargill City Council, after it agreed in 2020 to invest up to $46 million to support the devel

Environment Southland’s latest monitoring has found high levels of toxic algae at the Aparima River at Otautau. There are already three other active toxic algae warnings in the region; the Waikaia River at Mahers Beach, the Hamilton Burn at Affleck Road and the Waiau River near Excelsior Creek. This