Support for Labour is steady on 47 percent, while National has fallen one point to 32 percent in the latest TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll. ACT is on 8 percent, Green on 6 percent, and NZ First continues to languish on 2 percent, well below the 5 percent needed to enter Parliament. The previous Colmar Bru
New Zealand-based Ubiquitome is ramping up production of its mobile, real-time (RT) PCR technology with funding from the United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative. Ubiquitome is the only NZ private company to be accepted into the highly co
Defending champion Carter Strang of Wallacetown and co-driver Stewart Robbie lead the seedings for the MLT/Heartland Hotels Ernslaw One Limited Rankleburn Rally 2020 this Saturday. The duo dominated last year’s event and are favourites again this year. Invercargill driver Mark McMillan will be the s
Hi there team…..this is not the way how I thought whatsoninvers rocktober would start, saying RIP to one of the top axe men in rock n roll, Edward (Eddie) Lodewijk Van Halen. As you probably know Eddie Van Halen lost his long battle with cancer aged 65. As with most tributes, it’s a mission to […]
Anderson House will rise again in all its glory after Invercargill City Councillor Nigel Skelt’s passionate plea to spend the full $1.2 million to get the place back open. The Category 1 historic building at Anderson Park was gifted to the city in 1951 by the Anderson family. It was used as a public
Support for Labour is steady on 47 percent, while National has fallen one point to 32 percent in the latest TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll. ACT is on 8 percent, Green on 6 percent, and NZ First continues to languish on 2 percent, well below the 5 percent needed to enter Parliament. The previous Colmar Bru
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
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
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
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
Support for Labour is steady on 47 percent, while National has fallen one point to 32 percent in the latest TVNZ Colmar Brunton poll. ACT is on 8 percent, Green on 6 percent, and NZ First continues to languish on 2 percent, well below the 5 percent needed to enter Parliament. The previous Colmar Bru
They’ll be coming in their tractors and farm utes to the Town and Country Hui tomorrow, but there will be no placards or protests. Organised by Federated Farmers and the Southland Chamber of Commerce, the idea was to create a fun community day where people could also learn more about the new freshwa
The SIT Zero Fees Southland Sharks have named a powerful four-man squad for the Schick 3X3 Cup to be played at ILT Stadium Southland next month. The all-star squad features New Zealand 3X3 representatives Hyrum Harris and Alonzo Burton, together with Sharks fan favourite Dom Kelman-Poto and the retu
A West Coast farmer was disconcerted to find a farm track on his property listed as a road on Google Maps. Andrew Stewart is a sharemilker at Taramakau, inland from Kumara, on the West Coast. He said the so-called road is in fact a farm race used for herding stock or driving tractors. Upon learning
New Zealand-based Ubiquitome is ramping up production of its mobile, real-time (RT) PCR technology with funding from the United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative. Ubiquitome is the only NZ private company to be accepted into the highly co
Defending champion Carter Strang of Wallacetown and co-driver Stewart Robbie lead the seedings for the MLT/Heartland Hotels Ernslaw One Limited Rankleburn Rally 2020 this Saturday. The duo dominated last year’s event and are favourites again this year. Invercargill driver Mark McMillan will be the s
Hi there team…..this is not the way how I thought whatsoninvers rocktober would start, saying RIP to one of the top axe men in rock n roll, Edward (Eddie) Lodewijk Van Halen. As you probably know Eddie Van Halen lost his long battle with cancer aged 65. As with most tributes, it’s a mission to […]
Anderson House will rise again in all its glory after Invercargill City Councillor Nigel Skelt’s passionate plea to spend the full $1.2 million to get the place back open. The Category 1 historic building at Anderson Park was gifted to the city in 1951 by the Anderson family. It was used as a public
