Laura Smith

The results of public consultation that aimed to find a solution to the controversial naming of a Te Anau park are in.

Invercargill may be lacking a comedic community now, but there are hopes the southernmost city is hiding a comedy star.

For the first time, a Southland team has won the Otago-Southland Secondary Interschool Teams Championship chess competition.

Southland residents, both city and rural dwellers, feel they will be hit harder than the other by likely rates rises.

Crews have put out a fire at a garage in Gore this morning.

A Bluff oysterer has unanswered questions following a community meeting on the discovery of an oyster-killing parasite in Foveaux Strait, but says he is feeling more buoyant.

He has been rescheduled three times and now he is back, he does not plan to be nice.

The Government’s announcement another 200 dairy workers will be allowed into the country to help alleviate shortages is being called a token gesture by a Southland farmer.

Southland's agricultural community feels like it is in the dark as rumours fly about an unpublished report on water quality, with one farmer saying it could be a disaster for the sector.

The realisation it has been 50 years since he returned from serving in the Vietnam War brings back mixed feelings for Ian Beker.

People in Bluff last night got to hear the latest information on the recent discovery of an oyster-killing parasite in the Foveaux Strait.

A hitchhiking fundraiser spanning the length of the country has raised more than $35,000 for suicide prevention, but the team involved will not simply end it at Bluff.

An outbreak of gastroenteritis in Southland appears to have ended as no further hospital staff or patients have been reported as affected.

An outbreak of gastroenteritis in Southland appears to have ended, with no further hospital staff or patients affected.