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Youths Arrested After Collision With Police car

News - Dec 04, 2020

A crash occurred about 6pm tonight on Stead Street in Invercargill, involving a car and a Police vehicle. No one was injured in the incident. Police have arrested three people in relation to this crash and are working to locate a fourth. Those three arrested are all young people, due to appear in I

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How 200 kilos of Frozen Tomatoes Were Rescued for the Good of the Queenstown Community

Dec 03, 2020

What do you do when 200kg of rescued tomatoes are accidentally frozen en route to your food charity? You call in the food cavalry of course, to transform the frozen mishap into more than 65 litres of delicious, home-style tomato sauce. The food cavalry in this instance are Cookery students at Southe

Pick Five at Riverton Trotting Club Meeting

Southland - Dec 03, 2020

To celebrate 60 years of racing the Riverton Trotting Club is running a Pick Five competition with a jackpot of $1000 at all three of its meetings this season starting this week at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill (Thursday, 3 December). If the jackpot is struck on either the first two meetings a

Southlanders Pass With Flying Colours at Queenstown Startup Weekend

Dec 03, 2020

The Flying Kiwis team, made up mostly of Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) students, were the winners of the Start Up Queenstown Lakes Startup Weekend, held over the weekend in Queenstown. The team based its business idea around the problem of unconscious bias in employment and hiring. The solu

OSCA Super Saloons a Drawcard at Teretonga Park

Dec 03, 2020

OSCA Super Saloons are the big attraction at the Southland Sports Car Club’s pre-Christmas motor race meeting presented by Downer this weekend. They are just one of eight classes on the programme in what is traditionally one of the most varied line ups at any meeting during the season. They will be

News - Dec 04, 2020 Youths Arrested After Collision With Police car

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Gig Guide - Dec 04, 2020 ABBA Tribute Show Confirms Invercargill Show Will Go Ahead This Year by Mike Sanford

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Southland - Dec 03, 2020 Winton-Lorneville Highway Closed Following Crash by Mike Sanford

Southland - Dec 03, 2020 Truck Blown Over In High Winds on Longbush Road (Updated) by Mike Sanford

Dec 03, 2020 How 200 kilos of Frozen Tomatoes Were Rescued for the Good of the Queenstown Community by Mike Sanford

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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