The directors of Invercargill City Holdings Ltd (Holdco) have warned the dividends it pays the Invercargill City Council annually may be reduced from next year.
Building control managers from local authorities across Otago and Southland will today attempt to come up with a co-ordinated response for property owners whose buildings were designed by disgraced Invercargill-based design engineer Tony Major.
The organiser of an Invercargill children's festival where a boy broke his leg during a stunt jump activity on Wednesday says the boy's parents have accepted it was an accident.
Environment Southland has granted consent for the establishment of a small-scale experimental oyster farm near Stewart Island.
Former University Challenge question writer Lorraine Isaacs is back on the job. Allison Beckham quizzes the questioner.
Three jobs are being cut at the Invercargill police station after a decision to centralise the Southern district intelligence group in Dunedin.
The Community Trust of Southland (CTOS) has offered to write off part of a large rugby debt and push out the start date for the repayment of the remainder, a proposal chairman Tracy Hicks hopes will be enough to settle the future of Invercargill's debt-laden Rugby Park.
Rest-home and retirement village operator Bupa Care Services New Zealand is pouring millions into developments in Southland.
Coastguard Bluff's new $1.3 million rescue vessel will become a ''floating memorial'' to those drowned in Foveaux Strait.
An Invercargill boat manufacturer is celebrating a $2 million Australian Government supply contract and is confident it will lead to more orders from state and federal agencies across the Tasman.
Tuatapere artist Wayne Edgerton's sentence of home detention for mistaking Adam Hill for a deer and fatally shooting him in April has angered many and divided the community. For Tuatapere contractor Brendon Diack, the young hunter's death has revived memories and emotions of his own dreadful mistake in the bush 18 years ago. Allison Beckham reports.
Five days have been set aside to hear submissions into a controversial proposal to pipe treated wastewater from the Te Anau sewerage plant 18km south to Manapouri and spray it on to rural land near Te Anau Airport.
A Southland commercial diver stands to lose his boat, fishing gear and the value of his seized catch after being convicted of illegally collecting an estimated 550kg of paua off the Southland coast.
An Invercargill-based forestry management company has taken a device made for outdoor enthusiasts and adapted it as a safety tool for staff and contractors.
A Wanaka man with mental health issues has been sent to Dunedin's Wakari psychiatric hospital, to the relief of his lawyer. Peter John Barratt (72) has been on remand at Invercargill Prison since his arrest on April 12.
The Southland District Council expects to have its roading funding cut as a result of a Government review, but the cuts will not be as much as feared, strategic manager for transport Joe Bourque says.
The elderly owner of a shop in the Invercargill suburb of Glengarry whose building and stock were damaged when a motorist drove through the front window yesterday refuses to get stressed.
With court action against his long-time friend's widow finally over, Dallas Reedy says he can now publish his book about surviving the Easy Rider sinking two years ago.
Easy Rider owner Gloria Davis wept in the Invercargill District Court yesterday as victims' families and the sole survivor of the 2012 sinking which claimed eight lives asked the court to be merciful.
