On Saturday the inaugural Southern Grilles and Gasoline Car & Bike Show was held at Collegiate Rugby Club with almost 300 car and bike entries. All money raised was donated to St John. Photos by Dave Loudon Photography. The winners are: Best in Show Graham Baird 59 Plymouth Suburban Custom Best Amer

The Serious Crash Unit will examine the scene. Emergency services are at the scene of a serious crash involving a car and a motorcycle on Crown Range Road, Cardrona. One person has died following the crash between a motorcycle and a car on Crown Range Road, Cardrona. The road is closed and motorists

A leather glove partially blocking an inlet pipe is believed to have contributed to an overflow of wastewater from the Mataura wastewater ponds into the Mataura River. Further inspections this morning have found wave action was also contributing to the pond discharging to the river. It appears there

News has come through that one of NZ’s best guitar pickers Peter Posa passed away at the weekend. In his day few came close to pickin’ a guitar like Peter. His talent and skill took him all over NZ, Australia, Pacific Islands and the USA working with some of the greats like Frank Sinatra. Peter […]

On Friday (1st February) Splash Palace Head Swim Teacher Marie McQueen retired after 22 years of teaching Swimming Lessons and running the Splash Palace Swim School . Southland has been very privileged to have had Marie over these years, she has developed not only the Swim School that has a Swimming

Horsepower is the name of the game at the Wyndham Harness Racing Club meeting at Young Quinn Raceway in Wyndham this Sunday, 3 February. Since 2017 the Wyndham Harness Racing Club has held a display of classic cars in conjunction with their February meeting and it has proved to be a huge success. In

A coastal search for the two fishermen who went missing off rocks at Slope Point on Sunday afternoon continues. Police are now in a position to name the two men. They are 23-year-old Shaun Orchard and 28-year-old Hendrix Kamo, both of Southland. The families of the two men are being supported by Pol

With the new water restriction regime now in place, level 1 means residential, commercial and industrial users need to use hand held watering for grass areas. There are no restrictions on watering gardens, trees or shrubs. However, 3 Waters Asset Manager Matt Bayliss is urging residents to be mindfu