A Southland Lotto player is among four winners set to celebrate after each claiming $250,000 in Lotto First Division during Saturday night’s draw. The Southland winner purchased their ticket online through MyLotto, joining other successful players from Hamilton, Tauranga, and Whanganui. The Hamilton ticket was sold at Dinsdale

Today we take a Old Invercargill flashback to 2004 with property adverts from a different era. Featured in this throwback are adverts from Todd Real Estate, Harcourts, The Professionals and Ross Green Real Estate — a reminder of how local property marketing used to look more than 20 years ago. It’

Awarua Synergy has completed one of its most challenging operations to date — a two-week insulation deployment across the Chatham Islands and Pitt Island that pushed logistics, endurance, and teamwork to the absolute limit. While the Deep South is known for its rugged conditions, the Chatham’s proved to be “nextlevel

Invercargill is gearing up for the PlaceMakers Southern Scooter Challenge this Saturday, March 21, but the excitement has already begun with a lively warm-up ride through the city. On Friday the 13th, 59 scooters — along with one impressive 5 seater motorbike with Invercargill Mayor Tom Campbell on board— completed a

Two new labrador puppies from Invercargill have recently joined the K9 Medical Detection bowel cancer detection squad. Each puppy costs $85,000 to raise from 8 weeks to 12 months when they are ready to start cancer odour detection work. The Invercargill Licensing Trust (ILT) is one of the southern

Marsden Point stores 300 million litres of imported petrol, diesel and jet fuel and could hold 350 million more if the owning company keeps converting old crude oil tanks. Channel Infrastructure's CEO takes us inside the ex-refinery as the Middle East conflict raises questions about fuel supply and

Environment Southland has identified toxic algae in the Aparima River at Thornbury, raising concerns for public safety and animal health in the area. The discovery follows routine monitoring, which found conditions suitable for algae growth in the river. Earlier in the week algae was reported in the Mataura river. Algae

Career firefighter union members in the south are facing pay cuts while they carry on their two-weekly strikes from this Friday. Invercargill NZPFU representative Aaron Ramsey said strike action is continuing on Mondays and Fridays for an hour, on the corner of Gala Street, where the protest moved several weeks