Luisa Girao

A reduction, or a 0% rise, are up for discussion as Southland councils rethink annual plans because of Covid-19.

An Invercargill man was surprised by what he found during a walk last week.

The owner of an Invercargill cleaning company says she has never felt more appreciated.

The Southland Recreational Whitebaiters association president is urging people not to visit their spots during lockdown.

The population of takahe is growing, but the species is still in trouble, the Department of Conservation (Doc) says.

An Invercargill manufacturing company has Government approval to manufacture hundreds of in-demand hospital equipment parts.

A Colombian-born resident says living overseas is a life dealing with daily challenges.

Southern Institute of Technology’s project to build an apartment building on Invercargill’s CBD block is at risk.

The oyster season is on "pause" mode due to the countrywide lockdown in an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19.

Going on holiday is always exciting — but for the first time in her life Otago Daily Times reporter Luisa Girao  never wished so badly not to be away.

In the first three days of the 2020 Oyster season, one of Southland’s biggest oyster factories processed 84,000 of the Bluff delicacy.

A request to the Invercargill City Council to increase investment in the CBD redevelopment by $16million could contribute to a potential 8.1% rates increase.

A change of governance of the Southland Museum and Art Gallery to the Invercargill City Council is ‘‘the first step to progress’’, Invercargill deputy mayor Toni Biddle says.

The Government-appointed board steering the merger of the country’s 16 polytechnics and institutes of technology into a single entity has guaranteed it has "no intention" to move any Southern...

In the early 2000s, during a trip to Thailand, Nobby Clark met a Buddhist monk who said something that changed him forever.

Boats and the dredge are ready to be in Foveaux Strait for the start of the Bluff oyster season.

A second locomotive has been lifted from the Oreti River where it had been for almost a century.

If the Southland Fish & Game councillor facing backlash over his comments about "chick scientists" does not resign, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage might intervene in the matter, a source says.

The last couple of days have been a blur for Melyssa Palmeira.

They hoped for the best but expected the worst.