Bond in race for Invercargill mayoralty
INVERCARGILL'S residents now have four people to choose from when they go to the polls to elect their mayor.
Longstanding Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt indicated...
Water tower improvements ‘no brainer’
CARRYING out earthquake strengthening work on Invercargill's water tower is a "no-brainer" decision, the City Council's infrastructure and services committee meeting heard yesterday.
The committee...
Hotel aims to ‘create vibrancy’
DOWNTOWN Invercargill may soon have another hotel.
The plan to build a new hotel on the corner of Tay and Kelvin Sts was revealed last...
Development a ‘game changer’
KEEPING Invercargill's heritage while progressing with the new has been at the centre of submissions and questions raised during the three-day resource consent hearing...
‘We can can count on fellow Southlanders’
New Zealand's sense of innocence was lost after the Christchurch terror attack on two mosques, according to Invercargill Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt
Speaking at a...
Statue about to be unveiled
A STATUE which historian Lloyd Esler describes as "not too bad" for the price will be unveiled next month.
After more than two years of...
Michels achieves Formula 1600 Championship dream
INVERCARGILL driver Jordan Michels has won the 2018/2019 New Zealand Formula 1600 Championship.
Michels went into the final round at Pukekohe Park Raceway, south of...
Volunteer organisations worried about government funding changes
VOLUNTEER organisations in Southland are concerned that changes to the funding model to the government's Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) will severely impact the...
Hipkins to face SIT merger critics
EDUCATION minister Chris Hipkins and senior ministry officials are set to face a raft of questions from Southlanders, if not outright hostility, when they...
Ohai Railway quandary
THE Ohai Railway Board Offices and Depot have been given a Category 1 listing by Heritage New Zealand, but exactly who, if anyone, will...
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