The biggest video store in Australasia is having a massive clearance starting on Monday. United Video South City Invercargill currently has 120,000 stock units and owner Daryle Blackler said he wants to offload 80,000 of them. Also the longest serving video store owner in New Zealand, Daryle has own

Heavy rain for the west and south of the South Island and northwest gales for the south and east. A complex front, preceded by strong and moist northwesterlies, is expected to move onto the South Island from the southwest this afternoon, then move slowly north over the Island during late Sunday and

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) graduate Stefenpon Sitindjak has successfully competed in, and won the Lee Kum Kee NZ Developing Chefs Challenge which was held on October 12th at the Auckland Seafood School. Mr Sitindjak’s winning dish was a skilful fusion of Chinese cuisine and the food he g

Hiya team. Seems like a never ending parade of stars passing through the gates to enter another or better world. First up, and we omitted to mention it at the time but the man who created one of the most memorable songs of the early 70’s Johnny Nash passed away at his home in Texas […]

There are nine new cases – eight in managed isolation and one household contact of previous case – reported in New Zealand today, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has confirmed. Dr Bloomfield and Minister of Health Chris Hipkins have provided a Covid-19 update this afternoon. Seven of

Police are reviewing the death of a Gore toddler who drowned in the town’s wastewater treatment ponds last January. Lachlan Jones, who was three-years-old, could not be revived after being found unresponsive in the sewage oxidation pond in south Gore. Police ruled it as a death by drowning, but the

With the long weekend coming up Southern DHB’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr Susan Jack is urging Southerners to maintain important health and hygiene precautions including being tested if you have any cold or flu symptoms, no matter how minor. “The increase in cases we are seeing in managed isolati

The Invercargill Harness Racing Club will host a fantastic day of harness racing at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill next Thursday, 29 October. The meeting is a twilight event, starting at 3.00pm and will feature the running of several of the region’s premier harness races that were not held at th