Laura Smith

An approved 4.9% rates increase was called a compromise by an Environment Southland (ES) councillor yesterday as the council approved its annual plan for 2020-21.

An  extra $16million is being pumped into the Invercargill City Block development to tally up to a $46million contribution from Invercargill City Council.

Archaeologists at the city block development were surprised to uncover the foundation of Invercargill’s first brick building last week.

After 30 years working at the Southern Institute of Technology (SIT), Maree Howden is now the boss.

Possibilities for the future of Invercargill Airport air control will be found after an aeronautical study is completed.

Southland business owners want the Invercargill City Council to raise its investment in the City Block Development (CBD).

Southlander Robyn Boniface’s devotion to her sport for more than half a century has been recognised with the award of New Zealand Golf volunteer of the year for 2019.

Questions are still being raised over where an Otatara resident’s $90,000 bequest should be spent.

Vacant Invercargill council buildings "like a scene from Alien" could be demolished to avoid expensive repair costs.

A joint hearing will be held in Te Anau today for two Fiordland Trails Trust resource consent applications — one of them retrospective — for the nearly completed Lake2Lake trail.

A taskforce established in Gore will assist businesses struggling with the economic impact of Covid-19 and aims to continue pre-Covid growth in the town.

A petition calling for the Government not to exempt the Manapouri Power Scheme from the national standards set out in the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) has been...

As part of the Fiordland community response to Covid-19, two meetings will be held this week in Te Anau for residents to learn and share ideas about what the future could look like.

Eighty-seven people will be made redundant by Invercargill licensing trust ILT in the first wave of job losses expected at several southern licensing trusts.

An attempt has been made to get redevelopment of Southland’s museum moving.