Emergency services are refusing to say what caused an explosion at a Kāinga Ora-owned Invercargill home yesterday. Emergency services were called to the Rothesay Place house in the suburb of Rockdale shortly before 1.30pm yesterday following reports of an explosion. St John took two people to Southl

Police continue to make enquiries into the fatal crash in Makarewa on 2 September. The teenager in Dunedin Hospital has improved but remains in a critical condition. Police would now like to hear from the driver of a maroon coloured Toyota Prado or similar that was travelling south on SH6 shortly af

Skywatchers and plane spotters hopefully caught a glimpse between the clouds  of a South African Airlines jet today. The huge AirBus A34-600 is heading back to Johannesburg on a 15hour plus flight. The plane made landfall over Southland earlier this week on its way to Christchurch. Dozens of kiwi’s

Talented Southland racing driver Jordan Michels has raced at the highest levels on both sides of the Tasman but until last month he had never had a crack at ClubSport. Considering his family operates Evolution Motorsport in Invercargill, the major sponsor of entry level Southland Sports Car Club Clu

Health Minister Chris Hipkins is delivering the daily Covid-19 update at the Beehive. There are four new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, two linked to the Auckland August cluster and two imported. The Ministry of Health has confirmed that the two community cases have epidemiological links to

Being adaptable, patient and determined has been the key to managing plans to open He Waka Tuia Art + Museum during a global pandemic. Level Two restrictions have been a bit of an extra challenge for the He Waka Tuia Art + Museum team ahead of the space finally opening to the public at 12pm […]

Hey there team. Here we are with another two country greats. These two go back to the early 60’s and yer can’t really have a country music feature without Johnny Cash and Roger Miller so here we go. Don’t forget to pop into Little Fire MusicWorks on Dee St. Haydon, Toni and maybe Lennon will […]

Covid-19 has hit the farming community in an unexpected way: it is drying up the supply of farm vehicles such as quad bikes. That is because factories that assemble them in the United States have had their production disrupted by the virus April. Even where a factory has continued assembling the veh