Scott O'Donnell has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business — recognition that spans trucking, hydrogen fuel, a $180 million city centre overhaul, and a dementia care village on the edge of Invercargill. O'Donnell has spent his career expanding

Despite all of the new employment opportunities coming to Southland, Infometrics predicts a slowing down of population growth in the south. Infometrics principal economist Nick Brunsdon delivered a presentation to the Risk and Assurance Committee on Long Term Plan assumptions. But Invercargill Mayor Tom Campbell didn't want to

Dialysis patients at Southland Hospital now have tablets and headphones to get them through five-hour treatment sessions, funded by the Invercargill Licensing Trust. The ILT donated five tablets and five headphone sets to the hospital's dialysis unit — a ward where patients are hooked up to machines for hours

More than 38,000 Southland and West Otago power users will see a discount on their electricity bills this spring, with The Power Company Ltd handing back $11.7 million through its annual price discount programme. Residential customers on the TPCL network get 2.3 cents back for every kilowatt-hour

Two online players have each pocketed $5.03 million after Saturday night's Powerball Must Be Won Draw rolled down from First Division — one ticket sold to a Wellington player, the other to someone in the Tasman region. Neither ticket matched all the Powerball First Division requirements, so the

Agricultural training in the South took a major step forward today, with the commencement of the Southern Institute of Technology's Telford campus refurbishment, Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says. "Today marks the beginning of the $2.4 million campus refurbishment and the start of even more positive change

The man died in Thursday night's motorcycle crash on Clyde Street has been named as Whetu Taylor, 41, of Invercargill. RIP. Related: Fatal Clyde Street Crash Closes Highway Police released his name today (Friday). Detective Inspector Stu Harvey said enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing

Enrolments in Southern Institute of Technology's postgraduate nursing programmes have jumped around 85 percent since 2020, and the people behind the growth say it shows no sign of slowing. Postgraduate Programme Manager Jane Elder has been at SIT's School of Nursing since 2019 and took on