Some 11 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed at a managed isolation facility in Christchurch, with another 14 possible cases being investigated. The Ministry of Health says it is investigating after the cases were detected during routine day three testing. None involved cases in the community, it s

Police Crash Update: Main Street (SH1) Mataura is now open following a serious crash earlier this afternoon. Three people were treated – one with serious injuries, one moderate and one minor. We thank the public for their patience. —-ends—- Police are at the scene of a truck vs car crash on Main Str

Southern Pastures, the country’s biggest farmland investment fund, has bought the dairy brand Lewis Road Creamery for an undisclosed sum. At the same time Lewis Road’s founder and chief executive Peter Cullinane has announced he would step down from his roles at the company. “It’s been an incredible

Pack the Park photos by Photo: Richard Dimmock Photography and Vanessa Adcock Photography. A Blair Vining Invitational 15 won against an ITM invitational team in Invercargill this afternoon, scoring 52 points to ITM’s 17. The local community gathered to watch and honour the man behind it, Blair Vini

New documents show Southland businesses have serious concerns about the Invercargill City Council being fit to govern. The Department of Internal Affairs requested information from the council in August following rising tensions between elected members, and at times, with staff. The documents were r

Three New Zealand farms are now using electronic cow collars that use sound and vibration to guide and contain individual cows without the need for fences. The collars are designed by the Kiwi agri-tech company Halter. Basil the Friesian cow munches calmly in the paddock. As she moves there’s a quie

Power Play – With the drama and excitement of election night over, it’s now time to get down to business. While Labour celebrates a resounding win, National’s on a soul-searching mission to figure out how it all went so wrong. The swing to Labour was so extraordinary it won the party vote in every s

It is 1989! in New Zealand it was the year TV3 went to air. Weird History presents Timeline: 1989, the last year in the decade of the 1980s. ’89 would see the liberty prevail when the Berlin Wall fell, along with several other countries in Eastern and Central Europe – From Czechoslovakia to Romania,