The petition to Save the Riverton Racetrack has closed with 2003 signatures, MP for Invercargill Sarah Dowie says. “Riverton Racetrack is one venue mooted for closure as part of New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Future Venue Plan. The petition will be forwarded to them as part of the Riverton Race Clu

Hi there team. They say form is temporary, class is permanent. Eric Clapton without question comes into the latter category. And Eric turned 74 over the weekend and is still going strong performing some dates in Japan this month, back to the UK for his now famous run at the Royal Albert Hall in May

Police can now release the names of two people who died in separate crashes in Southland last month. Motorcyclist James Keith Heathcote, 60, of Invercargill died following a crash on Tiwai Road, Invercargill on March 19.  >>Read Funeral Notice>> Kieran Atirau Mahuika, 28, also of Invercargill, died

whatsoninvers.nz has been made aware that redevelopment of the Southland Museum and Art Gallery has been given the green light although strenuous efforts to have this confirmed have as yet come to naught. It’s understood that the pryamid style will be recreated and will be enlarged. However we’ve be

SPW are stoked to announce that we will be airing ‘Wrestling on the Edge of the World’ on TVNZ DUKE in 2019! More details will be made available soon, but for now, keep an eye on our social media channels and website for more upcoming announcements and a full schedule of live events for 2019. […]

Ian Collier, a former senior manager of Air New Zealand and Telecom, has been appointed as chair of the new Southland Regional Development Agency, which will incorporate Venture Southland. The new agency’s board is made up of local and national figures with a broad range of relevant skills. The boar

OPINION: The race for the keys to the Invercargill mayoral office and car (and a big, expensive, carbon dioxide spewing, not-particularly safe in comparison to other cars, beast of a gangsta-wagon it is) is starting to generate some interest. The incumbent, newly-knighted Sir Timothy Shadbolt, once

OPINION: We have all seen the proposal for this city centre development potentially one of the biggest retail developments of an established city centre in New Zealand and this is all happening here in Southland thanks to HWCP. The project is going to include 1000 covered car parks, retail shops, me