Potentially thousands of UK-based New Zealanders are in a race to get back to New Zealand, with their visas set to expire in the coming days. The UK’s Home Office granted all overseas nationals an extension to their visas until 31 July – but with that date just a week away, New Zealanders in the UK

Last year’s Catlins Coast Rally winner, Garet Thomas of Darfield, returns to tackle the roads again this year. Thomas, with wife Gemma co-driving, won the event in dramatic fashion last year. The duo went into the final stage in third place, thirty-three seconds off the lead but when problems befell

Hiya team. How’s the week been treating you? We’ll keep on keepin’ on looking back at the songs that made it big in 1970 – 50 years ago. First up it’s English band Mungo Jerry who took the world by storm with In The Summertime. Incidentally the song has been rerecorded with Mungo’s frontman and […]

SBS Bank has used the economic challenges since Covid-19 to sharpen up business and concentrate on what is working well within its banking sector. Following its AGM in Invercargill earlier this week, chief executive Shaun Drylie said in reacting to the Covid situation they worked out that, “if you d

The SBS Bank Tour of Southland is all set for 2020. Entries for the event, which will take place from 1 to 7 November, opened this week, and there is already significant interest. Race Director Sally Marr said there was a real buzz around this year’s edition of the event. “Lockdown has been tough on

The Prime Minister’s plan to announce a roughly $100 million recovery package for Southland, in the wake of the likely closure of the Tiwai Smelter, was scuppered by New Zealand First at the eleventh hour.   RNZ understands, as a result, there will not be any specific amount of money allocated to th

West to southwest gales for parts of central and southern New Zealand. Heavy snow for the far south of the South Island. A strong westerly flow lies across central and southern New Zealand. A cold front is forecast to move onto the far south of the South Island tonight (Wednesday), followed by a cha

Tarras – a small farming settlement in Central Otago – is being eyed up as a possible location for a new airport.   The current concept idea is to build a 2.2km, jet capable runway on a 750 hectare block of land in Tarras. So far, $45 million has been spent on the project – […]