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16 Southland Schools to Get Solar Panels
16 Southland Schools to Get Solar Panels
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

Sixteen Southland schools are in line for rooftop solar panels under a $30 million government programme announced as part of Budget 2026. Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds confirmed the selections on Monday, with the list spanning from Halfmoon Bay School on Stewart Island to Drummond Primary School inland, and Otautau School

Report Challenges Fair Share Tax Claims
Report Challenges Fair Share Tax Claims
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

New Zealand's top one percent of earners pay more income tax than the entire bottom half of the country. That's the central claim in a new handbook from the Taxpayers' Union, released this week as the 2026 election campaign heats up. The group says its

Nightcaps Teacher's Songs Get Animated
Nightcaps Teacher's Songs Get Animated
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

A Nightcaps music teacher's songs, written nearly two decades ago and largely sitting in a drawer, are now animated videos watched by children across the country — thanks to a collaboration with SIT's screen arts programme in Invercargill. Nicky Fryer, a teacher aide and music teacher at

Milford Millions to Fund Southland Toilet Upgrades
Milford Millions to Fund Southland Toilet Upgrades
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

Southland District Council is spending its $1 million Milford Sound windfall on public toilets. Council agreed at its meeting on Wednesday to direct the money — received from selling its two percent shareholding in Milford Sound Tourism Limited — toward renewing and upgrading public toilets along the main tourist route through Southland

Southland Sharks Win National Basketball Title
Southland Sharks Win National Basketball Title
Sport + Motorsport   -   Aug 09, 2026

The Southland Sharks are national basketball champions, beating the Wellington Saints 104-101 in overtime in Invercargill. Last year the Saints ended the Sharks' season at the same stage. Saturday's result was payback — hard-fought, down to the wire, and settled only in extra time. Sharks captain Sam Timmins

16 Southland Schools to Get Solar Panels
News   -   Aug 10, 2026 16 Southland Schools to Get Solar Panels

Sixteen Southland schools are in line for rooftop solar panels under a $30 million government programme announced as part of Budget 2026. Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds confirmed the selections on Monday, with the list spanning from Halfmoon Bay School on Stewart Island to Drummond Primary School inland, and Otautau School

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16 Southland Schools to Get Solar Panels
16 Southland Schools to Get Solar Panels
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

Sixteen Southland schools are in line for rooftop solar panels under a $30 million government programme announced as part of Budget 2026. Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds confirmed the selections on Monday, with the list spanning from Halfmoon Bay School on Stewart Island to Drummond Primary School inland, and Otautau School

Technical Fault Ends Buchanan Podium Bid
Technical Fault Ends Buchanan Podium Bid
Sport + Motorsport   -   Aug 10, 2026

A freak technical fault almost certainly cost Cormac Buchanan a podium at the British Grand Prix. The 19-year-old Southlander qualified eighth at Silverstone — matching his career best — and was running with the front group when his bike began overheating from the moment the lights went out. A suspected tear-off from

Gore Hedges Its Bets on Southland Reform
Gore Hedges Its Bets on Southland Reform
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

Gore District Council has backed both competing Southland local government reform proposals, writing to the Ministry for Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport ahead of the government's August 9 deadline. The council confirmed support for both the two-unitary Greater Southland proposal developed by Southland District Council and the single-unitary

Labour Slumps as Opportunity Surges
Labour Slumps as Opportunity Surges
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

Three months out from the election, the government is clinging to a two-seat majority — and a new party just made things considerably more complicated. The latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll has the Opportunity Party breaking five percent in a mainstream public poll for the first time, landing on 6.1

Report Challenges Fair Share Tax Claims
Report Challenges Fair Share Tax Claims
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

New Zealand's top one percent of earners pay more income tax than the entire bottom half of the country. That's the central claim in a new handbook from the Taxpayers' Union, released this week as the 2026 election campaign heats up. The group says its

Nightcaps Teacher's Songs Get Animated
Nightcaps Teacher's Songs Get Animated
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

A Nightcaps music teacher's songs, written nearly two decades ago and largely sitting in a drawer, are now animated videos watched by children across the country — thanks to a collaboration with SIT's screen arts programme in Invercargill. Nicky Fryer, a teacher aide and music teacher at

Milford Millions to Fund Southland Toilet Upgrades
Milford Millions to Fund Southland Toilet Upgrades
News   -   Aug 10, 2026

Southland District Council is spending its $1 million Milford Sound windfall on public toilets. Council agreed at its meeting on Wednesday to direct the money — received from selling its two percent shareholding in Milford Sound Tourism Limited — toward renewing and upgrading public toilets along the main tourist route through Southland

Southland Sharks Win National Basketball Title
Southland Sharks Win National Basketball Title
Sport + Motorsport   -   Aug 09, 2026

The Southland Sharks are national basketball champions, beating the Wellington Saints 104-101 in overtime in Invercargill. Last year the Saints ended the Sharks' season at the same stage. Saturday's result was payback — hard-fought, down to the wire, and settled only in extra time. Sharks captain Sam Timmins

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