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Power company Meridian Energy offered the owners of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter savings of close to a quarter of a billion dollars to keep operating for another four years. The company’s annual meeting has been told Meridian offered Rio Tinto a package of changes to their supply contract, whic

Hiya team, not a good week, firstly we lost Helen Reddy and now singer / songwriter Mac Davis has also left us, but left us with some great songs. Word is that Mac died following heart surgery aged 78, same age as Helen Reddy Mac was multi talented musician, solo performer, TV host and of […]

Environment Southland has put in place some initiatives to help support Southland ratepayers with their upcoming annual rates invoices. At today’s Council meeting, Environment Southland councillors set the rates in accordance with the recently adopted Annual Plan 2020-2021, and retrospectively agree

There was a distinctive youth element that came out of the Leader’s Debate in Invercargill last night, with an almost even balance of male/female candidates as well. Between them they covered a broad cross-section of New Zealand issues involving health, Maori, Climate, business and farming. There wa

Hiya team, sad news to round off the month. Helen Reddy passed away at the age of 78. The Australian born and raised singer made it big in the early 70’s with hits like Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress), Angie Baby, You and Me Against The World, And I Love You So. Helen has […]

Southland Hospital’s new $2 million MRI scanner is now in place and ready to scan its first patients today (Wednesday 30 September), Southern DHB Chief Executive Chris Fleming said today. The new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, which is manufactured in the Netherlands by Philips Healthcare

TVNZ’s latest Colmar Brunton poll has Labour on 47 percent, National on 33 percent – with Labour unable to govern alone. The Green party is on 7 percent still trying to recover from the private school funding saga and the wealth tax as a red line, while ACT on 8 percent continues climbing grabbing t

Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) Cookery students and tutors volunteered their time and talents over the weekend to cook and package around 425 meals for Salvation Army’s Invercargill Food Bank. The collaboration was a result of a large amount of frozen meat recently donated. On Saturday 26th