Southland

A Southland woman says no-one has been held accountable for for the lack of care her mother received in an Invercargill rest-home after going through an investigation of more than three years.

The Timaru District Council’s sudden withdrawal from a key Otago-Southland water alliance has left other councils disappointed and raised a series of questions regarding the decision.

Contact Energy is not lying down on its declined billion-dollar Southland wind farm, taking two avenues to get the project across the line.

Police have taken a third young person into custody in relation to an aggravated robbery in Invercargill.

In a full-circle moment, Southland’s very own country music export is back touring the South Island with the son of legend Charley Pride, whose music she grew up listening to in Edendale.

The names of two women were inadvertently transposed in a story in The Ensign on March 5 about Gore’s Happy Wanderers walking group who completed their annual three-day away trip last month.

In what is an early start to the sickness season in our house, this week we have had one very sick youngest lad.