Southland

One person has died after a two-car collision at the intersection of Kew Rd and State Highway 1 about 6am yesterday.

Nestled on the banks of the Waihopai River is a home that is nearly as old as Invercargill itself.

Tickets to enter Verne’s Vinyl Vault — the Bluff Drama Club’s next theatre restaurant production being staged at the end of the month — are already heading out the door at breakneck speed.

Animal welfare inspectors have returned to a Southland farm where claims of neglect were investigated last year.

A talented pair of Myross Bush School students were the overall winners at the New Zealand’s Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) Southland Science & Technology Fair last week.

While national rental prices are at their lowest since 2023, the Southland market has bucked the trend, rising by just under 10% in a year.

Despite a pre-election campaign in which he rode Invercargill streets on a bicycle, Robert Guyton confesses he has never ridden to an Environment Southland meeting.