Allison Beckham

New SBS Bank chief executive Wayne Evans has wasted no time stamping his mark on the organisation, announcing a restructuring of his executive team.

Burning high-sulphur coal and wet wood will be banned in Gore and Invercargill homes from January 1.

Fiordland residents opposed to the Southland District Council's controversial proposal to pipe treated wastewater from the Te Anau sewage treatment works and spray it on rural land at Manapouri have ramped up their campaign.

Salford School in Invercargill has been ordered to pay former principal Marlene Campbell $5000 after the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found she was unjustifiably suspended.

Environment Southland is calling on the Government to abolish a newly introduced second levy on cruise ships visiting Fiordland, saying it could stop cruise operators from coming to the area.

Two years ago, Wiremu Edmonds launched a company offering leadership programmes and values-based training to corporate clients.

The Invercargill consulting engineer who designed Stadium Southland which collapsed in 2010 during a heavy snowstorm has been expelled from the engineers' institution for incompetence.

Disgraced Stadium Southland designer Tony Major, who has been expelled from the Institution of Professional Engineers (Ipenz) this week for incompetency, had already been deregistered as a professional engineer.

The Invercargill woman charged with keeping too many cats on her city property can be named as Averil Maree Gardiner.

A longtime friend of hunter Wayne Edgerton, who mistook Adam Hill for a deer and fatally shot him two months ago, says he hopes Mr Hill's family and friends do not carry out their threats to harm Edgerton.

The two Invercargill companies taking over ownership of electricity lines company OtagoNet are looking to contribute $76.4 million each for an equal share.

A very, very short story dashed off on her cellphone on the spur of the moment has won Invercargill teenager Ashlyn Gallagher $1000.

National Party fresh face Sarah Dowie has conclusively won the Invercargill seat.

Sport Southland has won a Ministry of Health contract to lead an anti-obesity initiative in Invercargill.

Ask the veteran members of the Setarip racing syndicate how many standardbred horses they have owned or leased, how many winners they have had and the names of their favourite horses and they are quick with the answers.

The death of valuable dairy cows poisoned by eating a relatively new variety of swede has cost Southland farmers at least $400,000 so far, DairyNZ Southland and South Otago regional leader Richard Kyte estimates.

Thirty-five years ago, Dipton sheep farmer Graham Milligan decided to plant a few eucalypt trees on stony ground next to the Oreti River, where his paddocks seemed to be always either flooded or burnt off.

The police officer investigating yet another theft of guns in Southland says although the thefts are ''obviously of concern'', there is nothing to suggest they are linked.

Tuatara keeper Lindsay Hazley is close to realising a career dream - helping establish a colony of tuatara in the wild on an island in Foveaux Strait.