A contestant of The Bachelor New Zealand was sentenced after she admitted stealing more than $12,000 from her employer and from a social organisation she was part of.
An Invercargill officer who put a drunk woman in a headlock and pulled her to the ground will not face criminal charges, despite a independent investigation finding the use of force unjustified.
Jacabeth Bartlett-McBride (left) helps Mia Atkinson (both 15) make her first lantern which will be used as part of Invercargill’s Matariki celebrations next month.
A group of Invercargill council housing tenants want to have a stronger, united and more effective voice, as the city council plans to raise the rent of its units by 35% over the next two years.
A million-dollar shortfall in funding for the Southland District Council’s roading and bridges programme will not result in an immediate rates increase.