The Ministry of Health has announced no new COVID-19 cases in the Southern district today, for the twelfth consecutive day. The region’s total remains 216, with 12 active cases, 202 now recovered and two deceased.   Community testing to include COVID-19 Alliance Group employees Alliance Group employ

Leading food and solutions co-operative Alliance Group is investing $4 million to lift its beef processing capacity in the South Island. The company will invest further in its 18-month-old venison plant at Lorneville near Invercargill to enable the facility to also process cull cows during peak seas

Invercargill City Council workers who are not able to return to work at Alert Level 3 will have their wages cut in half, according to an ICC Staff Update newsletter. On April 22, ICC chief executive Clare Hadley announced that pay cuts would commence after April 28, with April 27 a statutory holiday

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, will provide a COVID-19 update at 1.00 pm today. Dr Ashley Bloomfield says there are 3 new cases of Covid-19; 1129 confirmed cases, 347 probable cases, 1476 cases in total. There are seven people in hospital. No

The Epidemic Response Committee is holding its final meeting of the week. Speaking at today’s meeting will be the prime minister’s former chief science adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, Auckland City Missioner Chris Farrelly, Women’s Refuge New Zealand chief executive Dr Ang Jury, Wise Group joint chief

Updated: Police received a report of a car that had crashed and then the engine caught fire on Rimu Road at around 8pm. The vehicle had gone off the road and into a paddock. The driver was the only person in the vehicle and was reported to be status 3. Our last update was that the […]

New Zealand venison farmers are being caught out by the Chinese government’s moves to clamp down on the trade of wild meat. The confusion has prompted some processors here to hold off shipping venison to the country. China has been tightening its rules on the trade of wild meat in the wake of the Co

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has announced Moving Day will go ahead as planned for dairy farmers this year, but with strict controls to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. On 1 June each year, the first day of the new dairy season, a large number of dairy farming families, sharemilkers, con