While house prices fell across most of New Zealand over the past year, Invercargill went the other way — up 8.2 percent, outpacing Queenstown, Christchurch, and almost everywhere else. The average Invercargill home now sits just shy of $550,000. Nationally, values dropped 1.2 percent over the same period.

Two SIT hairdressing students have made the national top 10 in one of New Zealand's most prestigious bridal hair competitions — and they've only been at this for 18 months. Haylee Clark and Holly Wolf, both second-year students at the Southern Institute of Technology, were announced as

State Highway 93 is closed between Mataura and Clinton after a serious crash this morning. 4:45pm Update: Now Open. Police were called to the single-vehicle crash on SH93 at its intersection with Cameron Road, near Old Coach Road, at about 7.55am. One person is reported to have sustained

Ian Pottinger called the mayor's answer a "soliloquy". Tom Campbell called his behaviour "rude". Another Tuesday, another clash at Invercargill City Council. The six-term councillor clashed with Mayor Campbell during a full council meeting on Tuesday — the third time Pottinger has butted heads with

Two men have been arrested and more than $30,000 in stolen property recovered following a months-long investigation into rural burglaries across eastern Southland. The men, aged 42 and 38, from Niagara and Gore, were charged with receiving stolen property after their arrest on Tuesday. The investigation traced back to

Southlanders are about to get faster access to specialist care, cancer treatment, and elective surgery after the new Dunedin Hospital outpatient building was officially opened on Friday. The $440 million, five-storey facility is the first completed stage of the long-delayed Dunedin Hospital rebuild — a project that has spent years grinding

Invercargill won't be getting a Māori ward. Councillors voted against it this week, and the push from local iwi to leave things as they are made it an easy call. Council manager Michael Morris told the meeting that feedback from Te Rūnaka o Awarua and Waihōpai Rūnaka was

More than 13,000 caps. One good cause. And a pop-up shop that's probably unlike anything Invercargill Central has hosted before. The Rotary Club of Invercargill Charitable Trust has been gifted an enormous collection of caps from an estate — 13,000-plus of them — and rather than let them