Air New Zealand is set to trial a direct service between Invercargill and Auckland using its Airbus A320 jet aircraft from the second half of 2019. The trial service will operate five days a week, departing Invercargill at 6am and arriving in Auckland at 7:55am.  The Auckland-Invercargill service wi

Some slight tweaks to the make-up of Southland’s junior representative teams will be of focus when they compete in the annual Southern Junior IPS in Christchurch this weekend. Over the past few years Touch Southland have sent separate teams from Southland (Invercargill based featuring country player

A huge weekend of Touch took place with tournaments in both Oamaru and Alexandra. Saturday saw our under-12, under-14 and under-16 boys and girls teams take on the best of Canterbury and Otago. All teams took some valuable experiences from the tournament and now know the standard required when the S

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has revealed he will step down after next year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan. He said whoever replaced him would bring a new perspective. “Some fresh eyes, some fresh thinking … whoever it is will be fresh. It will be for the enhancement of the legacy of the jersey,” he […

Police acknowledges the sentences handed down in the Invercargill High Court today for the murder of Jack McAllister. This case has been a tragedy for Jack’s family, and the thoughts of the investigation team are with them at this time. We are aware that the Invercargill community was heavily affect

On Friday Southern Dirt Bike Club hosted round one of three annual twilight series with 154 entries. For more information about the club go to their Facebook page Southern Dirt Bike Riders Photos by Richard Dimmock Photography  On-line entries are open again for our MX champs on the 16th and also op

It’s time for the annual Ascot Park Christmas at the races tomorrow (Saturday 15th December). Event organiser Ana Corkery said “this year the marquees and corporate tents had sold out months ago and fashion in the field entries are also well up especially the men, if you haven’t registered make sure

Today the two men who murdered 19-year-old Jack McAllister outside Stadium Southland last year were both given life prison sentences. Stuff reported that Brayden Whiting-Roff and Christopher Brown were today sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. Laura Scheepers was sentenced to 12 months’ h