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The first players from the World Cup-winning Silver Ferns netball team have arrived back in New Zealand. Ameliaranne Ekenasio, Jane Watson, Karin Burger, Shannon Saunders and Phoenix Karaka landed about 5.30am at Auckland Airport today, less than 48 hours after defeating Australia in the World Cup f

As part of a government industry agreement, dairy farmers are required to cover 30 percent of the estimated $880 million cost of eradicating the cattle disease, Mycoplasma bovis. In February Dairy NZ started consulting with its farmer members on a proposal how to pay its share of the M bovis respons

After taking four years out, Graham McRae of Invercargill will return to competitive rallying in this year’s Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday 10 August. McRae’s motorsport journey is an interesting one. “I was completely not into motorsport,” he said recently. ”I even got my driver’s licence a little

Have you seen John MacGregor? Police are searching for 72-year-old John MacGregor, who has been missing from his home in Edendale, Southland, since the early hours of 21 July. He was wearing a dressing gown and slippers and left in a blue Toyota Corona which was later located on Wyndham Road, south

Played Saturday July 20th at Tokanui in front of a good sized crowd in changeable damp conditions. It was a good clean, fast and tight game. Southland Club Rugby – Division 2 Final Teams : Tokanui vs Mataura Half Time Score was : Tokanui 21 / Mataura 5 Full Time Score was : Tokanui 28 […]

The government is to establish a firearms register and make major changes to the licensing regime, in the second phase of gun law reforms. In the aftermath of the 15 March shootings, the goverment made certain weapons illegal and set up a buy back scheme. A second piece of legislation will now set u

The big upset after the 2016 local Invercargill City Council election was Cr Graham Sycamore on the election day just squeaked back on to the council table, but this was short lived after special votes were counted. Sycamore was out and Lindsay Abbot took the 12th chair at the council table.   Take

Go for landing……immortal words from Houston control as The Eagle came closer and closer to where no man had gone before, the surface of the moon. A couple of minutes later another immortal line, “Tranquility base here, The Eagle has landed”. History had just been made, but more was to come with Neil