Strong winds fuel the flames
FROM vegetation fires to a gutted house, Southland firefighters have spent the past week under the pump following 14 blaze-related callouts.
Fire and Emergency New...
Tickled pink to see rare dolphin
IT was with befuddlement a Lumsden man watched something large - and pink - leaping around Invercargill's New River Estuary yesterday afternoon.
To his surprise,...
ICC refurb riles craftsman
AN Invercargill furniture maker cannot understand why the Invercargill City Council (ICC) is getting rid of the council tables he and his late father...
Stink over Winton dump plan
A BID to make a Winton landfill the south's premier dump, with unlimited rubbish potentially trucked in from as far north as Canterbury, is...
Days of the old schoolyard
WHEN Graeme Davis' teacher told him to savour his school years before they flew by, he did not quite believe it.
Eighty years on, he...
Volunteers refuse to give up
IT has been two-and-a-half weeks since 68-year-old Raymond Horn disappeared from an Invercargill rest-home.
But civilian volunteers are refusing to give up hope.
Mr Horn, who...
Hopes fade for missing man
THE possibility of finding missing Invercargill man Raymond Horn alive is diminishing, but police will continue searching and doing everything possible to find him,...
Lush ready to rock ‘n’ roll
BROADCASTER Marcus Lush wanted to make a change and to inspire people and now he will get to do just that with what looks...
Two Winton banks set to close
THE unforeseen news Winton’s Westpac bank could be closing came as a shock to residents and business owners in the town yesterday.
A statement of...
Dross on the move to Tiwai
INVERCARGILL Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt says moving the potentially toxic dross from Mataura to Invercargill is good news and has no concerns about the...
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