One of the three buildings that comprise Southland District Council’s headquarters in Forth Street, Invercargill, has been rated as earthquake prone and staff who work in the building will be relocated into temporary leased office space elsewhere in the city. Following a detailed seismic assessment

Large fields in many of the classes made for a great opening day of motor racing presented by Downer at Teretonga Park yesterday (Saturday). Steve Ross of Dunedin in his Jaguar XK8 TraNZam took the OSCA Super Saloon race from Cantabrian Russell Mortimer in a Nissan 180SX with Kris Brown of Timaru th

International sporting events are not an everyday occurrence in Southland but Teretonga Park in Invercargill has for over 60 years been one venue that has regularly hosted top class racing drivers from all over the world. It will do so again early next year when from 24-26 January the annual Speedwo

Head coach Dale MacLeod has achieved one of his first goals, just in time for the Christmas break. After only six weeks in the role he is pleased to have 15 of the best performing players from the past two seasons back for 2020 SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags. This comes with the exciting news […]

The Southland Sidecar Championship at Oreti Park Speedway on Saturday night. Jason Harpur and swinger James Dawson winning the main title. Harpur has won the Southland title twice previously as both a rider and a swinger. “It’s been 10 years since I’ve won it but I’ve competed every year,” he said.

The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel are looking to make their mark at this year’s Super Club, which begins this Sunday in Nelson. Steel join all five other ANZ Premiership teams, along with international club sides Collingwood Magpies (Australia) and Wasps Netball (England) at the tournament, which

Known as Lennel, in reference to the ancient name of Coldstream on the Scottish border, this large Victorian home was built by John Turnbull Thomson between 1880-1882, when the suburb of Gladstone was covered by the vast Waihopai bush, far from the hustle and bustle of the Invercargill township. J.T

Junior representative sport has been a hot topic of conversation lately, with many sporting organisations making decisions to cull junior representative programmes. Touch Southland have endeavoured to flip this script somewhat, in fact completely. Over the past seven weeks, more than 300 children ar