Laura Smith

Police, and an Armed Offenders Squad, were sent to an Invercargill address last night after receiving a report of a person with a firearm.

Tropical butterflies and other creatures in the Otago Museum’s Tropical Forest continue to be cared for during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.

Isolated in more than one way, about 100 people are seeing out the Level 4 lockdown period in Milford Sound.

Two people are reported to have moderate injuries after a two-car crash in Invercargill.

A video meeting was held on Thursday afternoon for members of the Southland Museum & Art Gallery Trust Board Incorporated to be updated on how things were tracking during lockdown.

The first Southern Institute of Technology Subsidiary Board meeting was held yesterday via videoconference, with directors learning the impact of Covid-19 on students’ learning.

Two lucky Fiordland children will be able to spend the rest of lockdown with a brand new set of Lego building block toys after winning a community drawing competition.

Weighing only one gram, Tiny Tim — a Te Kakahu skink — is living proof of a nationally critical species’ translocation success.

The owner of a Bluff restaurant at the centre of a Covid-19 cluster says the 70 wedding guests were from out of town, and all staff present now had to self-isolate.

A blackberry bush is not commonly grown in a chimney, but the unusual growing space was the cause of a chimney fire in the South recently.

Luca Moynihan is a 4-year-old boy from Invercargill who does not let cerebral palsy stop him doing the things he wants to do.

The Te Anau community have been advised of a confirmed Covid-19 case in the town by a local doctor this morning.

Invercargill residents will still be able to buy alcohol during lockdown as the city’s supply is managed within a licensing trust area.

As the country prepares to enter Alert Level 4, one Invercargill manufacturing company is asking to be able to work to produce in-demand hospital equipment.