The long awaited Suqian Friendship Garden in Queens Park is now open to the public. The most recent addition to Queens Park, the completion of the Chinese Garden marks another milestone in the long-running relationship between Invercargill City and Suqian City of Jiangsu province in China. Since for

Dr Bloomfield said there were two new cases of Covid-19 to report today, both in managed isolation facilities. One case in Wellington was now considered recovered, Dr Bloomfield said, so the total number of active cases was 10. Watch the live briefing here around 1pm: If you have symptoms of the cor

How do you train healthcare workers to recognise and manage Covid-19 before they have access to patients, or before people get sick? Southern Institute of Technology nursing students are learning through ‘augmented reality’ – using holograms of actors portraying patients to prepare for managing Covi

Police can confirm one person has now died following a serious crash in Invercargill last week. The three-vehicle collision occurred at the intersection of Morton Street and Centre Street at about 3.50pm on Wednesday 17 June. The driver of one of the vehicles died yesterday in hospital. The police i

Police were alerted to a tractor crash on a Eastern Southland farm just after 11am today in the Glenham area. Tragically a man died as a result of the crash. Police’s Serious Crash Unit attended and Worksafe NZ has been notified. Another person with moderate injuries was taken to Southland hospital

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is providing an update on Covid-19 cases in the country. Yesterday, two more cases were confirmed, bringing the total of active cases to seven. The combined total of confirmed and probable cases was 1511. Watch the briefing live here around 1pm: A New

Police investigating the missing Harley Davidson motorbike belonging to the late Russel Blackford received a call from a member of the public on Saturday to advise the bike had been located. It had been found partly pushed into a river and the member of the public had retrieved it. Police are now ma

Two years after its inception, the Southern DHB’s National Bowel Screening Programme has already detected 177 cases of bowel cancer across the district. A further 1267 people have had polyps removed, many of which could have developed into cancer over time. “These numbers reflect significant, real-l