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The Great South Job Search for 2020 highlighted the extensive range of employment opportunities and support available for jobseekers across the Southland region. The free employment expo was held in Gore and Invercargill late last month and included employment seminars, the opportunity for jobseeker

Teenage binge drinking has “dropped off the cliff” in the last 20 years but until now no-one really knew why. A new paper, ‘What explains the decline in adolescent binge-drinking in New Zealand?’ comes up with some answers but the reasons are complicated, surprising and sometimes contradict themselv

The Southland Charity Hospital is by the community, for the community: and it is set to bring something pretty special to the public. To pay tribute to everybody who has supported the cause – and to mark the first anniversary of the death of cancer care advocate, Blair Vining, whose epic fight for m

Hundreds of thousands of dead animals risk being left uncollected on farms because of a collapse in the price of leather. Farmers have been told they will have to pay to have the corpses collected, but don’t want to do that. The Ministry for Primary Industries is trying to negotiate a compromise. Fo

The post-lockdown rebound in economic activity appears to have run its course as businesses begin to feel the burn of a closed border. ANZ’s latest monthly preliminary survey of business confidence shows headline confidence in the first week of August had fallen to a net negative 42.4 percent, down

Some New Zealand cancer patients are going without potentially life-saving treatment because of rising Covid-19 cases in Melbourne. The patients have neuro-endocrine cancers, known as NETs, treatment for which is not available in this country. The patients are deeply worried and urgently awaiting wo

Two 21-year-old men have been charged in relation to a fatal crash on SH6 in Winton on 16 February. One has been charged with endangering life by criminal nuisance. The other has been charged with one count of careless driving causing death, and seven charges of careless driving causing injury. Both

Matt Summerfield of Christchurch drove superbly to win the twentieth edition of the Catlins Coast Rally in his Mitsubishi Mirage AP4 on Saturday. Summerfield won four of the six Special Stages, taking the lead after the third, and building a gap of 52 seconds before Gore driver Andrew Graves won the