Ella Scott-Fleming

In a full-circle moment, Southland’s very own country music export is back touring the South Island with the son of legend Charley Pride, whose music she grew up listening to in Edendale.

The group set up to oppose the declined Slopedown wind farm is not celebrating yet.

After 20 years, Gore’s guitar statue is getting a much-needed facelift and will be back just in time for the country music festival in May.

After 20 years, Gore’s guitar statue is getting a much-needed facelift and will be back just in time for the country music festival in May.

A Mataura dairy farmer has been fined $130,000 for contaminating a nearby stream with effluent resulting in the death of thousands of eels and other threatened marine life.

A Riversdale art show that has been running for 50 years may be cancelled this winter due to a lack of volunteers.

A lone retiree has been working away on a community bike trail in Gore with the generous help of some local landowners.

As country music’s popularity surges across the globe, Eastern Southland is also lapping up the growing interest in the genre.

A Mataura dairy farmer has been fined $130,000 for contaminating a nearby stream with effluent resulting in the death of thousands of eels and other threatened marine life.

A Mataura dairy farmer has been fined $130,000 for contaminating a nearby stream, resulting in the death of thousands of eels.

A lineup of all-female musicians sang their hearts out last night to help raise funds for a beloved Gore native’s $800,000 cancer treatment.

A box of school lunches from Western Australia has made its way to the bottom of the country.

Luminous paintings by a Gore-born artist who captured quiet kitchen still-lifes with reverent detail has opened at a local gallery.

Fresh blood has given new life to a Gore cricket team, leading them to the top spot, their captain said.

A New Zealand landscape painter is releasing his third novel, featuring characters affected by World War 1, with themes of domestic violence, all told against the backdrop of rural Southland.

If you are interested an evening of live music with ’70s folk influences, the local gallery has what you need.