Community Trust South has today announced the appointment of Penny Simmonds as the new chair of Community Trust South. Simmonds takes over as the trust’s chair position from Margot Hishon. Lindsay Wright will remain as the deputy chair. Wright says “The board agreed that Penny has the right skills a

A search is underway to locate a man missing from a boat in Lake Wakatipu since yesterday morning, Sunday 30 June. The man was the sole passenger aboard a cabin boat which set out onto the lake from the Earnslaw slipway by the Wakatipu Yacht Club around 9:30am. The boat was then seen on the […]

Police have arrested one person in relation to the suspicious house fire that occurred at a Seaward Road house in Edendale, Southland, about 1am on Saturday 29 June. A 21-year-old man is due to appear in Invercargill District Court today, charged with arson. Police are currently not seeking anyone e

The future is looking great with an exciting new identity revealed to drive Southland’s regional success. Today marks the first official day of trading for the Southland Regional Development Agency and to celebrate a new name has been unveiled. Great South will be the trading name for the organisati

Police would like speak to members of the public with information about an aggravated robbery at the Traffers Bar in Gore on Sunday evening. A man wearing a mask entered the Hokonui Drive premises armed with a knife at around 8:45pm on Sunday 30 June. He demanded cash from the bar manager but was un

Blair Vining, 38, has bowel cancer and was given just weeks to live following his diagnosis in October last year. He has been ticked items off his bucket list and shared his journey with his 15,000 Facebook followers. One of those goals was starting a petition calling on the government to set up a N

The Minister of Finance received a request for an investigation under section 58 of the Charitable Trusts Act 1975 into the Community Trust of Southland, now Community Trust South concerning the actions of the trustees leading up to the resignation of John Prendergast in June 2017. In August 2018 th

A new hydroslide featuring three slides proposed for Invercargill’s Splash Palace is a step closer as final preparations are made for work to start on the $2.89 million project. Council aquatic services manager Peter Thompson said “We’re really excited to now be able to show the hydroslides off to e