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Marcus Lush Among Candidates Standing in By-election

Councils - Dec 23, 2020

Nominations closed, candidates for Invercargill City Council by-election announced Nominations for next year’s Invercargill City Council by-election closed at 12 noon today. The stand out name on the candidates list is tv/radio personality Marcus Lush, host of Marcus Lush Nights on Newstalk ZB. Lush

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Tiwai Point Smelter: Uncertainty for Workers, Local Economy and Environment

Southland - Dec 21, 2020

As Christmas approaches, the Tiwai Point smelter’s 1000 staff go into the holidays uncertain of their future. The Labour Party campaigned on keeping the aluminium smelter open for another three to five years. But unless a solution can be found, the closure of the smelter will go ahead in August next

Professionals Light Up Christmas Trail 2020 (full list/map)

News - Dec 20, 2020

Here are the entries for the Professionals Real Estate Light Up Christmas trail available for viewing from Thursday 10th December. Stand by for the whatsoninvers.nz Christmas Lights video. Public voting now open on the facebook.com/professionals.invercargill Remember to drive safely and please respe

Busy Time for Harness Racing Over Holiday Season

Sport + Motorsport - Dec 19, 2020

It will be a busy time for the harness racing code over the upcoming holiday period. The Wairio Trotting Club meeting at Central Southland Raceway in Winton on today (Saturday 19 December) leads off with a day that will feature the Otautau Four Square Supermarket Wairio Trotting Cup over 2400m. Ther

Community Feedback Key to Streets Alive Trials

Dec 19, 2020

Work to finalise the Streets Alive trials – initiatives aimed at making Gore’s streets safer, more accessible for everyone and the town more people-friendly – is continuing apace behind the scenes. Gore district Roading Asset Manager and Project Lead Peter Standring said the team has been working re

Councils - Dec 23, 2020 Marcus Lush Among Candidates Standing in By-election

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News - Dec 22, 2020 The Warehouse Group To Repay $68m Wage Subsidy by Mike Sanford

Dec 22, 2020 Southland’s Cormac Buchanan Wraps up Suzuki Series with Race Wins All-Round by Sport & Motorsport News

Southland - Dec 21, 2020 Tiwai Point Smelter: Uncertainty for Workers, Local Economy and Environment by Mike Sanford

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Southland Bucks National House Price Slump

Property - Aug 14, 2026

Southland is holding up where most of the country isn't. Seven months into 2026, the region has recorded a 3.1% increase in average home values — one of just three regions in positive territory nationally, alongside Canterbury (1.3%) and Otago (2.8%). Invercargill is up 0.1%

Weekend Gig Guide 13 – 16 August

Gig Guide - Aug 13, 2026

Sunday's the big one this week — Waikiwi Tavern's Great Pub Cash Giveaway Draw dishes out a share of $13,000 between 3–5pm, timed neatly around Stags v Waikato on the big screen from 2:05pm. Saturday brings DJ Awhe back to The Loney, Euphoria live

Southland Science Fair Turns 40

News - Aug 12, 2026

Two hundred and fifty student projects. Forty years. And for the first time, the sponsors are competing too. The NZAS Southland Science and Technology Fair opens to the public this Wednesday, marking four decades of the region's biggest student science event. Running August 11 to 14 at a

Milford Millions to Fund Southland Toilet Upgrades

News - Aug 10, 2026

Southland District Council is spending its $1 million Milford Sound windfall on public toilets. Council agreed at its meeting on Wednesday to direct the money — received from selling its two percent shareholding in Milford Sound Tourism Limited — toward renewing and upgrading public toilets along the main tourist route through Southland

Nightcaps Teacher's Songs Get Animated

News - Aug 10, 2026

A Nightcaps music teacher's songs, written nearly two decades ago and largely sitting in a drawer, are now animated videos watched by children across the country — thanks to a collaboration with SIT's screen arts programme in Invercargill. Nicky Fryer, a teacher aide and music teacher at

Soap Pranks Cost Council $5000 a Year

News - Aug 09, 2026

Someone keeps turning Invercargill's Gala St fountain into a bubble bath — and it's costing ratepayers more than $5000 a year to clean up. The soap suds prank, a recurring nuisance at the city centre fountain, requires staff to neutralise the foam with vinegar around 50 times