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An Invercargill player has won $36,480 in tonight's Lotto draw. The win came via MyLotto, with the ticket matching Lotto Second Division. Five other players across the country shared the same division prize. One of the six also hit Powerball Second Division, lifting their total to $50,

Last year Caleb Macdonald of Queenstown and co-driver Larisa Biggar of Australia won the Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally. It was Macdonald's first outright rally win and the second overall rally victory for Biggar in a season where they also won the NZ Rally Challenge Championship. This year

When Southlanders talk about looking after our own, we're often thinking about the here and now, the clubs, services, and programmes that make a difference today. The Southland Foundation adds another layer by encouraging and connecting local generosity with causes in our community, whether through creating an endowment

Southland basketball has a new single boss covering both the grassroots game and the Sharks' national league campaign. Rod Bannister has been appointed General Manager of the Southland Basketball Association and the Southland Sharks, combining what were previously two separate roles into one. The move is a deliberate restructure

Invercargill's gaming lounge Orion PC's has moved out of the city centre into Windsor to better target its teenage audience. Started by Ray Luck two years ago, the new move also offers the business a stronger footprint for its store setup, featuring two rollercoaster simulators, and

Invercargill’s first FreshChoice supermarket (and the fourth for Southland) officially opened this morning (Wednesday June 17), and the public are invited to join in the celebrations. Owner-operator Jigs Buha says the 57-year-old supermarket in Yarrow Street, rebranded from SuperValue Plaza, has been given a complete makeover. “It will blow

Hospice South is opening a flagship retail store in the former Hunting & Fishing building. Reloved will consolidate the charity's existing Invercargill shops into one central location, designed to boost efficiency and make donations easier. Chief Executive Pete Thompson said the move was a strategic investment in both

Immigration Minister Erica Stanford has accused her own ministry of deliberately withholding information from ministers and using creative accounting to hide cost blowouts on a failed technology project that wasted more than $30 million of taxpayer money. Stanford made the comments at a parliamentary Scrutiny Week hearing on Tuesday, alongside