Invercargill City Council is delighted to be able to welcome customers back into its offices, facilities, and places people love to visit at Alert Level 2, albeit with some changes in place. Splash Palace, Invercargill Public Library, Bluff Service Centre, and the Civic Administration Building will

District Health Boards are to get an extra $3.92 billion over four years and a one-off $282.5m to catch up on elective surgery after the Covid-19 disruption. In a pre-Budget announcement this morning the government said the additional funding would deliver about 153,000 more surgeries and procedures

The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide an update at 1.00 pm today. Latest updates details: There are no new cases of Covid-19 today. This means the total number of cases remains at 1497 Total number of cases in Southern as of 12 May 2020: 216 (confirmed and probable). 7 are ac

“Grief is something that we cannot play with, and the Government is doing just that,” funeral director Sharron Hanley said, in response to further Level 2 restrictions. The Funeral Directors Association yesterday condemned the Level 2 announcement allowing only 10 people to say goodbye to loved ones

Big plans to expand the Sanford salmon farm in Stewart Island are underway, with the arrival of a new feed barge in October. General manager of Aquaculture Ted Culley said the barge would be accompanied by eight new pens – to cater for Stage One of the expansion plans in Big Glory Bay. The barge […]

Leyton Haddleton aspires to be part of the Tall Blacks management squad one day but it’s the impact his mentors in another code had on him that have helped shape the way he approaches basketball coaching. These days a Southland Basketball Association development officer and coach from beginner throu

Sad news from the weekend with news that Little Richard had passed away. Little Richard came from that wonderful era of the dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll with contemporaries like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry to name a few. They say that Little Richard was the architect of Rock’n Roll. In my

Jerry Stiller, who played two of American television’s most cantankerous fathers on the sitcoms Seinfeld and The King of Queens, has died aged 92, his son Ben Stiller said. “I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes,” wrote Ben, a Hollywood comedian who appeared w