Police are investigating a suspicious fire on Main Street, Mataura on Sunday 26 July. The fire was located burning among macrocarpa trees in the rear section of a residential property at around 3am. The fire was well involved and had destroyed a garden shed on the property. Police would like to hear

The resilience of the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel shone through when they upset the Northern Mystics 47-41 at the Auckland Netball Centre on Sunday. Injury-ravaged after losing two shooters to major injury, the Steel suffered another blow when playmaking Trinidad & Tobabgo shooting import Kalifa

A temporary recycling drop-off service is now available at the Invercargill Waste Transfer Station, offering Invercargill and Bluff residents with a place to dispose of their clean recycling. Prior to COVID-19, residents were able to use the recycling drop-off area at Southland disAbility Enterprise

A good ol’ fashioned town hall pre-election meeting. One way to describe Friday’s gathering at the Invercargill WorkingMen’s Club with the Right Hon. Winston Peters. The meeting attracted good numbers, in fact very good numbers considering it was a work day and the weather hardly favourable. The lea

In his clearest signal yet that the election campaigning has begun, Winston Peters took shots at his coalition partners and previous governments during a fiery speech laying out his plan for Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. The New Zealand First leader spoke to a packed room at Invercargill’s Workingm

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was in Bluff today announcing an $8 million loan from the Provincial Growth Fund for a new salmon hatchery for Sanford Limited. The Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) hatchery will be built in the Bluff area.  It will be designed to produce six million Chinoo

The Invercargill City Council is ramping up its pest control efforts at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery after two incidents in recent weeks. New measures include trapping in Queens Park in the immediate area surrounding the museum and traps being installed throughout the museum facility, while

Alliance Group is to invest $3.2 million to further upgrade its Lorneville plant near Invercargill as it seeks to improve the operational efficiency of the co-operative’s largest site. The plant’s Engine Room Two provides key refrigeration for four cold stores, some blast freezers and several produc