No compromise on date clash
THE Burt Munro Challenge committee will not move its dates to avoid a clash with Southern Field Days next year.
The Burt Munro Challenge organiser,...
Parker ‘frustrated’ with Tiwai smelter
THE government tried to get the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter to clean up toxic waste at its Southland site but failed.
Environment Minister David Parker...
Mother badly injured in accident
FURTHER misfortune has struck a Southland woman whose son was murdered two years ago.
The Southland Express has learnt the sole casualty of a vehicle...
Cr sworn in; media rules in spotlight
IT seemed ironic the day Invercargill city councillors debated media protocols was the very day broadcaster Marcus Lush was sworn in to council.
Cr Lush...
Burt Munro Challenge highlights
Our photographers captured some of the action of Burt Munro Challenge events last weekend.
Invercargill’s art heist
AN art heist in the centre of Invercargill's CBD has left Southland Art Foundation chair Lyndal Ludlow baffled.
As a result there was now a...
Gov-Gen embarks on southern tour
TODAY marks the third day of the New Zealand Governor-General's Southland tour.
It was the first visit by a Governor-General in almost a decade which...
35% rent hike plan strongly opposed
AN Invercargill pensioner says she is very stressed because a proposed 35% rent increase for her council unit would exacerbate financial pressure.
Bontetaake Kaiteie (73)...
‘We must create a bridge’
THE celebrations of Waitangi Day this year left people with a feeling of hope for the future of the partnership between the Crown and...
Motor racing history returns to club where it all started
Sixty years after Gordon Gregory won 27 10s racing his homemade Ford 10 Special at Teretonga Park, memorabilia of the day has been donated...