Steve Hepburn

Positive progress has been made on the Rugby Park saga in Invercargill but there is no guarantee the park will stay.

Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark says he will support any Southland sporting team but he personally does not like rugby as a sport to watch.

Wind farms built in the South were in full flow yesterday, as a generator says more farms planned will significantly de-risk the threat of power cuts.

They are only a couple of signs but they have been labelled embarrassing and shameful by those in charge in East Otago.

The much maligned cabins at Taylor Park in Milton are set to go, with the park returned to a camping ground, with a bigger footprint.

The once super-popular Goldrush adventure race may be back on the calendar but whether it gets to the start line depends on funding being received to stage the event.

Lowering the dam — which fed Lawrence’s water supply — just before summer was always going to be risky, the Lawrence Community Board chairman says.

The liquor is still flowing down south, as is the giving.

The doors have shut on another country pub in the South — with the publican describing it as a tragedy.

The doors have shut on another country pub in the South, the publican describing it as a tragedy.

The next Wheels at Wanaka is set to be the biggest yet, organisers say, but it is also going to be the last.

The group that has been running the Central Otago Great Easter Bunny Hunt admits the future of the event is up in the air, saying it did not contact some runholders such were the tinder-dry...

The chances of a SailGP event coming to Queenstown appear remote, despite the economic benefit it would invariably bring to the town.

A project which led to thousands of jobs in Southland and a massive boost to the economy was celebrated in Invercargill over the weekend.

A housing advocate doubts any of the planned 2400 units proposed for Ladies Mile would be affordable, while an opponent of the scheme believes coming up with a transport solution for the area is a...