Southland

"Vulnerable" young Southlanders risk missing out on health care because the Southland District Health Board will not fund Invercargill's youth health clinic, Southland Youth One Stop Shop manager Jocelyn Johnstone says.

A 48-year-old woman is due in Invercargill District Court on Friday to face an assault charge after she was allegedly involved in a confrontation at a rural school yesterday.

Steel defender Emma Moynihan burst on to the national netball scene as a speedy 17-year-old schoolgirl and spent two seasons on the bench for the champion Sting side.

A woman who owes $124,000, which she was ordered to repay in 2005, will reappear in the Invercargill District Court next week.

A Southland baby owes its life to its grandmother who intervened during her own daughter's attempt to kill the child.