Nina Tapu

Christmas in the Park drew about 3000 Christmas revellers to Queens Park in Waihōpai last Sunday.

Thirty Otatara preschoolers sang and danced their hearts out for Age Concern Southland Christmas lunch diners in Waihōpai on Tuesday. 

A 15-year-old from Southland has packed her bags and left Waihōpai to pursue a life of artistic swimming.

The Spirit Army will be too busy to celebrate 10 years of caring for their community.

Gladstone Preschool staff and past and present tamariki crowd into the playground to celebrate the early childhood education centre’s 30-year anniversary with a colourful cake last week.

Ōraka-Aparima Rūnaka hosted a small gathering at the Riverton Racecourse for the opening of an emergency pod last week.

Whooping cough cases have almost doubled in past weeks — and Southland seems to be the area with the most cases across the country.

Hedgehope Golf Club members have been urged to "use it or lose it".

Reach ministries are celebrating a decade of connecting people from around the world.

Eight clues, one park and hundreds of dollars in prizes.

The promise of an ice cream if the Chicago Bulls basketball team won their game was a pivotal moment in the life of the incoming Southland Sharks head coach.

The Southland Wood Workers Guild exhibition opened last Saturday with a range of diverse exhibits displayed for the judges and the public.

The Harcourts Southland Foodbank Drive is marking 10 years of collecting kai for the community.

The region’s mountain bike riders will have some more tracks to ride on with the opening of a new adventure park in Bluff.

Tiwai Point’s smelter threw open the gates on Saturday and the crowds arrived en-masse.

In 2002, the Algorithm March dance phase came and went.