Allison Rudd

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

Two ex-pupils charged with setting a fire which destroyed three classrooms and caused $700,000 of damage at James Hargest College in Invercargill have been named.

Environment Southland chairwoman Ali Timms yesterday survived a meeting at which some of the councillors made it plain they wanted her gone.

Plans to extend the Southland Museum and Art Gallery have been ''retrenched'' to trim costs.

Environment Southland chairwoman Ali Timms says she will attend a meeting on Thursday that will debate her retention or removal.

To the observer it looks like any other dairy effluent pond, but a storage pond on a Southland farm could help the development of future energy sources.

For a few years, Rex and Joan Watson were courted by news media from all over the world.

Keen gardeners Gwen and Lindsay Wilson have unwanted venomous visitors: wasps have made themselves at home in the bottom of an old clothes dryer the retired Invercargill couple have been using as a planter box for potatoes.

When most people are fast asleep in bed, Mike Bailey or his colleagues are playing with balloons.

When Mike Winter and Julie Truman go on holiday, they take the toys with them.