Gore district councillors have voted to keep the same number of seats around the council table as the process of reviewing how residents are represented starts.
In a move Labour says is a "massive vote of no confidence" in the Disability Issues Minister, further decisions about disability changes will need to go to Cabinet.
There may not have been power or lights to turn on but that did not stop the Invercargill Community Connections Charitable Trust from launching the Youth Technology Hub in South City on Monday.
The battle for the Galbraith Shield kicks off tomorrow night. Otago Daily Times correspondent John Langford looks at how the Southland club competition is shaping up.
The seldom-used Gore Railway Shelter was treated to a near 90-year-old visitor last week when a 1938-built Standard railcar from the Pahiatua Railcar Society in Manawatu stopped in Gore.
Gore District Council and Mataura Community Board members plan to meet police and Hokonui Runanga this week to work on a solution to the anti-social behaviour of youth in Mataura.
If you had asked Shannon Saunders 12 months ago if she was planning to return to netball, she might have had a different answer. She tells netball writer Kayla Hodge how a new perspective...
Last weekend’s results were very predictable, with a lot of our punters getting five out of six. But nobody — including yours truly — tipped the Force to beat the Reds.
If Southland Women’s Evergreens softball players turned up to work on Monday with croaky voices, it’s because they were celebrating their win at the 40th National Women’s Evergreens softball...
A secondary school project designed to improve the wellbeing of residents in Enliven’s Walmsley House is proving equally beneficial for the pupils involved.
Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark has given an extraordinary interview to comedian Guy Williams, in which he appeared unapologetic for using racial and sexuality slurs, repeating several, and kept...
Fifteen years is how long it has taken for the Troopers Memorial Corner Charitable Trust to buy the former Queen Victoria Hospital but it has been worth the wait.
Not many sons would turn up to work one day so they could rip out the work their father had installed decades earlier, but CH Faul’s chief engineer Shane Austin did just that.
Classic Standard Railcar RM31 Tokomaru, from Pahiatua, visited Invercargill last week. The 48 to 52-seat railcar stopped in Invercargill as part of an Australian travel group’s South...