The Invercargill City Council is already gearing up for next month’s Matariki celebrations and has invited Southland children to help with the preparations. For the second year the city will celebrate its Matariki Festival to bring in the Māori New Year and the rise of the Matariki star cluster Shar

Invercargill hosted over 140 young dancers at the weekend for the New Zealand Highland and National Dancing Championships. Dancers from as young as five years old took to the stage over three days, but it was the Under 16 Championships at the centre of the competition. Your top ten Under 16 New Zeal

SH 93 Clinton to Mataura road closed due to snow. Detour route: n/a Heavy snow for parts of the lower South Island A cold showery southwesterly flow covering the South Island, is expected to spread over the North Island today (Monday). Snow is expected to 200 metres across the lower South Island, es

Three people have been charged with firearms offences following a search of an Invercargill property. At about 8pm yesterday (Sunday 24 June), Detective Senior Sergeant Stu Harvey said Police conducted a search of a Tweed Street address and found a number of firearms. Two women, aged 24 and 29, and

After suffering several close losses, the Silvermoon Tactix reversed the trend to pip the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel 53-52 in a thriller in Dunedin today. Ironically, the last time the pair met two weeks ago, it was the Steel who prevailed with the exact same scoreline. With their experienced h

This open letter was posted on the What’s On Invers facebook page. An open letter to the people of Southland, New Zealand Kia ora, A few years ago, my wife and I decided to move from Albuquerque, NM in the USA to Invercargill, New Zealand with our two sons. We had been discussing an international […

A Flock Of Seagulls’ “Space Age Love Song” 2018 version released on 8th June is fun, bright and breezy. The ’80s new wave outfit after 34 years have reunited for the first time in 34 years. Their gift to us five new versions of the hit song “Space Age Love Song” along with a video. (see below) Featu

Bauer & Scully take TT 4th-5th as Roglic wins Tour of Slovenia New Zealanders Jack Bauer and Tom Scully have finished fourth and fifth respectively in the final stage of the 2018 Tour of Slovenia. The stage was won by Primoz Roglic of LottoNL-Jumbo who took back-to-back stage wins and with them the