Invercargill City Council has been successful in its application for funding for three special projects which will bring the chance to truly innovate the city’s streets. About $400,000 has been awarded to Council from the Waka Kotahi Innovating Streets pilot fund. Roading Manager Russell Pearson sai

NZTA Released this Roading Update. Ahead of the three-day Labour Weekend, with fine weather forecast, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency reminds travellers of a useful tool that shows predicted traffic flows at particular times, based on previous years’ travel patterns: journeys.nzta.govt.nz/labour-day

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says there are two new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, both found in managed isolation. Dr Bloomfield has announced the new cases at today’s Ministry of Health update. It followed news last night that a person with Covid-19 went to an Auckland

A Gisborne sheep that evaded capture for five years has finally been shorn, producing a record-breaking fleece. Gizzy Shrek was shorn at the Poverty Bay A & P show this morning, producing a 13kg fleece, said its owner Rob Faulkner. “It’s a hell of a lot of wool to carry around.” It broke the record

A homebuilt, electric powered, vehicle created plenty of interest at Round 3 of the Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport Clubsport Championship at Teretonga Park on Sunday. Duncan Cairncross of Gore entered the Autocross event in his LVVTA, a self built car powered by an electric forklif

Invercargill’s ‘Great Little Train Show’ is on again this weekend but on a smaller scale – and it’s the second train show in the city this month. For the past 35 years the Southland Society of Model Engineers has been running the event, but this year the focus was more on the outdoor train rides. […

There are 25 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, 23 are cases at the border and two are related to the port worker reported on Sunday. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the two connected to the port worker are workplace contacts. The first case was previously considered a

A one-day event at Centrestage last Wednesday, Sell It fired the imaginations of a group of small business creatives and artisans, helping them to work on marketing and selling their products. Created to help small business founders in the lead up to Christmas, Sell It was a collaboration between CO