Invercargill, New Zealand News

IT'S A WINNER: Henderson Construction manager Brent Henderson and architect Roger Beattie, who has carried on the work of Neil McDowell after Mr McDowell's death, stand in front of the award-winning Northern Tavern in Invercargill.

CHEERS TO MILK: Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt drinks milk with Ascot Community School's TJ Tumai, 9, left, and Tisbury School's Chaise Hill, 10, at Fonterra's Milk for Schools launch at Waverley Park School yesterday.

A 17-year-old Invercargill girl who was abused and assaulted by Stags rugby player Nelson Spartacus Junior Ngaluafe says she would be scared if she saw him again and he needed to learn how to handle his alcohol.

Other Side Up and Rhythms of the Restless could be the hottest new sounds on the Kiwi music scene if they hit the big time via the time-honoured pathway of Smokefreerockquest.

Georgia Donaldson discovered some 'udderly amazing' facts when she came face to face with about 500 cows on Fonterra Shareholders Allan and Ann Black's farm in Invercargill this morning.

Invercargill's electric trams began service on March 26, 1912, with 10 trams plying four miles of track extending to Gladstone in one direction and Georgetown in the other.

The overall direct economic impact of the University of Otago to Dunedin and other centres in New Zealand is now $897 million a rise of $7.2 million since 2011, a new report shows.

Department of Conservation Wakatipu area manager Greg Lind says ''heads are down'' among his staff as national restructuring is felt in Queenstown and Glenorchy offices.

Poland is an untapped market that New Zealand has not yet fully explored and Southlanders should be taking advantage of, Wendy Hinton says.

When it premiered at the St James Theatre in Wellington in 1996, Russell Kerr's opulent production of Swan Lake received critical acclaim and had audience members on their feet applauding.

Hospice Southland chief executive Max Reid hopes an art exhibition will increase awareness of the work the hospice is doing, and that only a small part of it is about making people comfortable in the final days of their life.

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE: Sandra Murdoch's call to the fire service may have prevented a flare-up in her home.

It is 8 in the morning and already it is 26 degrees on the porch steps outside a medical clinic, in a suburb of Rwanda's capital and for Invercargill midwife Anne Dymond, Mother's Day plans are far from her mind.

Former All Black and Paua to the People spokesman Kees Meeuws, says "The South has spoken, we're united, it's clearly a bad idea to open up these areas." A mere 22 submissions were written by paua quota holders, the commercial fishing industry and their allies in support of the MPI proposal.

He said community leaders, who he would not name, had encouraged him to run. It was time for Invercargill residents to decide if they wanted a new mayor, he said.

Abano Healthcare Group was announced as the winner of the Emerging Leaders Best Corporate Communicator Award, at the prestigious INFINZ Awards dinner in Auckland last night.

While the separation of elective and acute surgical streams is increasingly common in large metropolitan hospitals, the feasibility of such a model of surgical care in smaller provincial hospitals has only recently been tested, delegates to the 82nd Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons have been told.

Growing more grass in colder months is not a load of gibberish A recent study has found using the plant hormone gibberellic acid as an alternative to nitrogen fertiliser in late winter and early spring can significantly improve pasture growth at a time when dairy farmers start grazing stock more heavily after calving.

Orphans Aid shops are urging NZ public to give third-world growers a fair deal this Fair Trade Fortnight.

The price of solar has fallen dramatically in recent years and is now less than a third of the cost it was in 2008, according to Solar power provider PowerSmart.