The Southland Stags have won at home, beating North Harbour 11 – 10 The Stags unbeaten at home so far in the Mitre Ten Rugby Cup. Today’s result will be a big boost for The Stags as they take on Waikato next weekend. Waikato were beaten by Tasman 34 – 17 in today’s earlier game.

Seven war memorials will soon receive some extra special treatment, thanks to funding from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF). Invercargill City Council has received $680,000 from PGF for the restoration work on the important monuments. The Council applied for the funding when PGF offered the one-time

Fire crews were called out to a fire at a house in Invercargill last night. The fire was at an address on Herriot Street, Richmond. A Fire Service spokesman says 3 appliances attended, 2 from Invercargill and 1 from Kingswell. The spokesman told whatsoninvers.nz that the fire was in a roof void of t

UPDATED: 10PM Sunday 27th September. A significant cold outbreak with snow down to low levels in many parts of the South Island and severe gales across central New Zealand A deep low to the southeast of New Zealand maintains strong to gale west to northwest winds across the country tonight (Sunday).

Police are seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery at the Pomona Street Discount Dairy, Invercargill on Saturday night. At around 8:45pm, two men have approached the store and one man presented a metal bar at the store worker, who has run away and called Police. The offenders then entered the sto

Fire crews are attending a chemical spill at the Fonterra plant at Edendale. The alarm was raised about 10.30 this morning. A spokesman for FENZ says Fire service 1 crew each from Edendale, Mataura , Wyndham and 2 crews from Invercargill attended. The spokesman says they will be on scene until every

Champions were crowned in categories ranging from under 13 to 85-plus in the Outdoor H&J Smith Southland Road and Time Trial Championships that took place over the weekend. The time trial took place on Saturday, with riders facing rather challenging weather conditions as they set off on their solo e

Welcome to Weird History’s Timeline 1987. We’re taking a look at the news, culture, sports, and entertainment during the year 1987. Going back to ’87, the materialistic 80s would see a slew of corruption, from PTL to Ivan Boesky to the Iran-Contra Affair. But there would be some uplifting moments –