Helen Henderson will return to the main entertainment stage when the 2026 Bluff Oyster & Food Festival takes place in Bluff on Saturday 23 May. Henderson, a singer songwriter, hails from Invercargill but her musical career spans from London to Los Angeles and Muscle Shoals, Alabama on the banks of

It was a magical moment at council on Tuesday afternoon, when members of Te Rūnaka o Waihopai broke into waiata following the appointment of Mike Bain. Mike was appointed Pou Manawhenua– Waihōpai Rūnaka on the Water, Infrastructure and Growth, Community and Regulatory and Invercargill District Licensing Committees. The Invercargill City

John Beckenridge killed himself and his 11-year-old stepson in a vengeful act against his estranged wife, a coroner has ruled. John Beckenridge, left, and Mike Zhou-Beckenridge. Photo: SUPPLIED Coroner Marcus Elliot said the Queenstown man was angry, self-righteous and vengeful when he drove his car off a cliff in the

After pricing up replacing my old courtyard pavers with new charcoal ones, the cost was enough to make me think twice. I needed a Plan B. Dean at Wrens Invercargill on Yarrow Street came to the rescue, suggesting I look at staining them instead with Novex Easy Seal Concrete Stain/

Suffering intense physical pain, motorcycle racer Cormac Buchanan felt a sense of relief when the chequered flag emerged at the Grand Prix of Brazil yesterday. The Southlander quickly emerged as a leading contender during the weekend’s sessions before gravel left on the track from a crashed rider sent him

It’s almost auction time for St John Invercargill’s playhouse and the site will soon be cleared for the new Southland District Headquarters. On Friday 13th March, ASB Bank Invercargill presented a cheque for $1,531 they had raised. St John Invercargill operations manager Cary Grant said teams were

Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says it’s a wonderful recognition of the hard work of the people of this province, that Southland had recorded the country’s largest increase in regional gross domestic product (GDP) at almost 10 percent. “According to figures released today by Stats NZ today, GDP to

From biscuits to the battlezone: what childhood beliefs teach us about conflict. Conflict’s a funny old thing, isn’t it? Whether it’s the small, everyday frustrations—laundry left on the floor, a teaspoon put back the wrong way in the drawer—or something deeper, like a strained relationship,