Allison Rudd

Southland farmers and local authorities are hanging out for rain as river levels across the region continue to drop and smaller tributaries dry up.

Invercargill project manager Nathan Klein has found an innovative way to keep an eye on the job.

Groups already working to improve water quality in the Waituna Lagoon near Invercargill have welcomed funding from dairy giant Fonterra.

Most families hand down cherished heirlooms of jewellery or precious ornaments through the generations.

Englishman Eddie King was not disappointed with his first taste of Bluff oysters.

The export market for specialist meat cuts from Australasia is ''as tough as I have ever seen it'', Clover Exports managing director Mike Eathorne says.

Most of the elk on Tom May's Winton farm will end up as meat cuts on restaurant tables in Europe.

The trial of a Bluff woman who has denied charges laid after the sinking of her fishing boat Easy Rider last year will probably take one week.

The seventh person to swim Foveaux Strait, and the first to swim it from Stewart Island to Bluff, says he has great respect for John van Leeuwen, the first person to conquer the fickle strait 50 years ago.

After 25 years in the job, Invercargill City Council chief executive officer Richard King has been reappointed for another five-year term.