Laura Smith

School holidays mean fun and games at the Invercargill Public Library for 5-year-old Bren Hendren.

Barefoot and alone, an Invercargill 5-year-old ran more than a kilometre on a gravel road to find help when his family’s car crashed in Curio Bay.

The Tiwai Point smelter, which was set to close in August, has been granted a reprieve after a new contract was settled between smelter owner Rio Tinto and generator Meridian Energy.

A devilish diffusion of festering flesh hit the nostrils of a Manapouri man mowing his lawn at the weekend.

Concern is mounting for an already challenged species as a mysterious sickness kills yellow-eyed penguin chicks.

It may be a steel skeleton at the moment but work on The Langlands hotel in Invercargill is set to progress.

A consent hearing next month will centre on the balance between tourism operators’ impacts on the Fiordland environment and commercial interests.

Southern primary health professionals are blaming cost, under-resourcing and general practitioner shortages for spikes in Southland Emergency Department patients.

Regenerative agriculture is a buzz phrase in farming circles at the moment. A pilot study in Otago Southland has been building a base for research into it in New Zealand. Laura Smith...

Despite the suggestion Southland’s regional council is out of step when it comes to climate change, councillors will not change their approach.

Following the Government’s declaration of a climate-change emergency, Southland regional councillors will this week discuss whether its own approach is out of step, as one councillor asserted.