It's been a turbulent first year as Gore district's mayor, but Ben Bell is hoping the next two will be 'pure bliss'.

Te Whatu Ora Southern asset management services manager Hugo Zaat with wood pellets which are now burning in Southland Hospital's two 4.5 megawatt boilers instead of coal [to the left]. Photo: Kavinda ...

Simon Gordon Wallace, 49, a former elder at the Invercargill Grace Presbyterian Church, was sentenced to three years' six months in prison in the Invercargill District Court on Thursday for injuring ...

WorkSafe, police and Gore District Council staff at the entrance to the wastewater plant where three-year-old Lachlan Jones died on January 29.Robyn Edie / Not-For-Syndication Gore police are ...

No news is not good news, Southland There's a lot happening in this region and our community relies on a dedicated local newsroom to cover it all. Our Southland team is hot on housing and worker ...

The move of the company's 270-tonne gold mining plant, which is 26m long, 12m wide and 10m high, out of a mining pit on one side of Freshford, across a main road and into a new pit 5km away went ...

Ministry for Primary Industries’ Fishery Officers and Compliance Investigators, backed by Police, carried out search warrants in Invercargill on Tuesday (file photo).Andy Jackson / Stuff A number of ...

There is now a firm timeline for the upgrading of CCTV cameras in Invercargill and Bluff.David Unwin / Stuff Improved CCTV coverage of inner-city Invercargill is scheduled to be commissioned in stages ...

Gore Mayor Ben Bell, 23, has been asked to resign from his position. Photo: Robyn Edie / Stuff Councillors met with Gore Mayor Ben Bell on Wednesday asking him to resign Bell, who declined the request ...

Contact Energy plans to lodge a resource consent application for a massive 55-turbine wind farm in Southland before the end of the year. Steve Harding, of wind generation advisory firm Roaring40s Wind ...

South Alive projects manager Julz Orr with one of the nine interpretive panels that will tell south Invercargill stories on a heritage trail being developed in the area. Photo: Kavinda Herath / ...

A person has died after a two-car crash in Southland. Two people were transported to Dunedin Hospital, one critically injured and another in serious condition, after a crash on Nightcaps-Opio Rd, ...