Saturday's the marquee — the Otago Southland Axemen Indoor Woodchopping Comp FINALS hit Waikiwi from 4pm. Axes, sawdust, roaring crowd — genuine Southland winter theatre, and a proper spectacle. Sunday brings Stags v Taranaki live on the big screen at Waikiwi from 5:05pm. Friday runs the usual weekend kick-off

Possum numbers in Southland have hit a record high in at least one control area, and a council report is now questioning whether the system meant to keep them in check is working. Environment Southland's biosecurity officer Raoul Thomas told a Wednesday committee meeting that possum populations had

Mika Muliaina will earn his Southland Stags blazer on Sunday when the side travels to New Plymouth to face Taranaki at Stadium Taranaki. Kick-off is at 5.05pm. The blazer game marks a significant personal milestone for the first-five, who wears the No.10 jersey. Sean Withy leads the side

Scott O'Donnell has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business — recognition that spans trucking, hydrogen fuel, a $180 million city centre overhaul, and a dementia care village on the edge of Invercargill. O'Donnell has spent his career expanding

Despite all of the new employment opportunities coming to Southland, Infometrics predicts a slowing down of population growth in the south. Infometrics principal economist Nick Brunsdon delivered a presentation to the Risk and Assurance Committee on Long Term Plan assumptions. But Invercargill Mayor Tom Campbell didn't want to

The director of a slink skin factory shut down by Environment Southland stripped off his suit jacket, shirt and tie outside the regional council's offices on Monday — and begged for his business back. Eddie Zhi, sole director of NZAgri Development Ltd, sat over a vehicle entrance at Environment

Dialysis patients at Southland Hospital now have tablets and headphones to get them through five-hour treatment sessions, funded by the Invercargill Licensing Trust. The ILT donated five tablets and five headphone sets to the hospital's dialysis unit — a ward where patients are hooked up to machines for hours

More than 38,000 Southland and West Otago power users will see a discount on their electricity bills this spring, with The Power Company Ltd handing back $11.7 million through its annual price discount programme. Residential customers on the TPCL network get 2.3 cents back for every kilowatt-hour