MetService is forecasting a sticky 24C in Invercargill and 22C in Gore on Tuesday, with afternoon showers that may turn heavy and thundery, before southwesterlies drop highs to 14C by Friday.
The Otago Southland Rescue Helicopter Trust's mission log shows 21 flights between Saturday and Monday afternoon, among them a search and rescue on Stewart Island, a Fiordland accident and five jobs at Kew.
Labour's Mananui Ramsden leads Te Tai Tonga with 8614 votes on the preliminary count, 2773 ahead of the Greens' Lisa Te Morenga. Independent MP Tākuta Ferris, who won the seat in 2023, placed fourth with 4716.
Five current students and two recent graduates of SIT's screen arts degree spent seven days working beside film and visual effects professionals on a multimedia installation for Te Unua Museum of Southland.
Opening a posted parcel addressed to someone else can be an offence carrying a fine of up to $5000. Here is what published guidance says to do with a misdelivered parcel, and who must fix it when yours goes missing.
Penny Simmonds has won a third term in Invercargill with 19,727 votes to Labour candidate Janice Lee's 10,112 on the preliminary count, but National's party vote in the electorate fell by more than 4700 from 2023.
Jeremy Presbury finished the Tour of Southland with the King of the Mountains title, a stage win, a spell in the leader's jersey and sixth place overall, the best result by a Southland rider this year.
Environment Southland scientists say El Niño is likely to keep the region wet and windy through to January, with river levels near normal on average but bursts of heavy rain still able to cause flooding.
Advance voting ends on Friday evening. From 9am on Saturday more than 2300 voting places open nationwide, including seven in Te Anau, and the rules on campaigning, photos and social media tighten for the day.
Police have named Kararaina (Kara) Aroha Toimata, 30, of Balfour, as the woman who died on SH6 near Josephville on Tuesday, and are asking anyone who saw a white Toyota Hilux flat-deck heading north about 1pm to call 105.
The annual Southern Artisan Christmas Fete at The Hideaway in Winton runs 10am to 4pm on Saturday 21 November, with every $20 ticket entered in a draw for a Stewart Island package worth more than $1500.
The founder of Invercargill web studio Bryder Studios builds and revamps websites and the systems behind them for businesses from Southland to Auckland, and launches his budgeting app KiwiBudget on 16 November.
Waihopai Bowling Club won both the men's and women's Southland open triples titles at the weekend, with a women's team led by 15-year-old Zoe Beck going through its first open-grade tournament without a loss.
Jayden Henderson was ready to walk away from the game in the middle of the year. A text from Stags coach Scott Eade changed that, and the Riversdale hooker now reports to the Crusaders in Christchurch on 24 November.
ILT Stadium Southland is a finalist for Medium Venue of the Year at the 2026 EVANZ awards and its general manager Jo Hutton is up for Team Leader of the Year, with winners to be named in Christchurch on 2 December.
Police say a group of six young people aged between 12 and 16 was arrested in Mataura with drugs and car-breaking tools after a day of vehicle interference across Invercargill. Four are before the Youth Court.
A 31-year-old Canterbury man accused of punching a victim to the ground and kicking them in the head on Rees Street at 1am on Sunday has been bailed to 11 November, one of several arrests Queenstown police made over Halloween weekend.
Fire and Emergency says fireworks probably started seven fires in the first two days of sales, and MetService expects rain to spread across the southern South Island this evening as Southlanders light up for Guy Fawkes.
Law and order has slipped down voters' worry list since 2023, but the parties' promises on murder sentences, police numbers and prisons would all be felt in Invercargill's courtrooms and at Invercargill Prison. Here is where they stand two days out.
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Former Gore hockey official Gareth Greenfield has been named the International Hockey Federation's men's umpire of the year, two months after becoming the first New Zealander to control a men's World Cup final.
Agriculture and horticultural science will stay a standalone Year 11 subject after Education Minister Erica Stanford reversed a Ministry of Education plan to fold it into general science, a decision Southland secondary principals have welcomed.
The two men and a woman arrested in Gore over an attack on three people in Clyde on 24 October are now listed to appear in the Gore District Court on 9 December, the Otago Daily Times reported on Wednesday.
Southland's Māori-roll voters help decide the country's largest electorate on Saturday, where incumbent Tākuta Ferris is standing as an independent after his expulsion from Te Pāti Māori and polled last in the only published survey.
Two men aged 39 and 41 and a 40-year-old woman were arrested in Gore on 29 October over an assault on three people in Sunderland Street, Clyde, on 24 October. Police are still seeking witnesses and footage.
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Southern district police say nearly 30 Subarus have been taken from streets in the wider Dunedin area since August, often with no sign of forced entry. They will not name the models involved, and Subaru's NZ distributor says it has not been contacted.
Electoral Commission figures show 1,074,416 people had voted by the end of Monday, 159,994 of them that day alone. That is about 214,000 ahead of 2023 but 208,000 behind the same point in 2020.
The woman jailed for life for shooting Dale Watene in Ōtautau in 2020 told the Court of Appeal in Christchurch on Monday her trial lawyer failed to put her history of domestic violence before the jury. The Crown called the appeal a continuation of her lies.
A 63-year-old woman with dementia who went missing from Durham Street on Monday was found in good spirits on semi-rural land on the city's outskirts on Tuesday morning, police say, after residents and Land Search and Rescue joined the hunt.
Students from Level 2 through to third-year Bachelor of Music perform at SIT Centrestage on Don Street from 6.30pm on Wednesday 11 November, with free entry and the bar open.
Invercargill councillor and former NZ First MP Ria Bond has called the timing of the Government's $3.4m rail loan disingenuous, saying councils are being dangled a carrot while told to cut spending.
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Southern Institute of Technology's annual free pet health clinic runs on Wednesdays and Fridays until 13 November at the Tay Street campus, with bookings essential for the 15-minute checks.
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Invercargill's new museum will cost close to $6 million a year to operate, up from the $4.1 million first budgeted, and the mayor says the full bill will add roughly 10 per cent to rates.
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Beef + Lamb New Zealand has released a three-part El Niño webinar series urging sheep and beef farmers to set feed budgets and trigger points now, as forecasters say the pattern will peak in November and December.
Sri Lankan-born dairy farmer Sithum Niluminda skittled Metropolitan for 47 in round 1 of Southland's ILT Premiership, and the defending champions chased the runs in 6.1 overs.
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New dairy statistics show Southland's 982 herds and 609,632 cows produced 14.5 per cent of the country's milksolids in 2025-26, with per-cow output well ahead of the national average of 428kg.
Tom Campbell says an invitation to help pay for trains will not be well received, after Winston Peters and Shane Jones announced a $3.4 million loan for a Canterbury commuter trial and a regular Mainlander service a week before the election.
More FM Southland's Biggest Quiz Night, backed by GWD Motor Group, fills ILT Stadium Southland on Wednesday 4 November with teams of four paying $80 to support two Invercargill community projects.
A Federated Farmers survey of nearly 650 farmers since the 3G switch-off finds two in three cannot rely on reaching 111 from most of their farm, with a Southland respondent among the frustrated.
Great South's space subsidiary now hosts antennas for Lockheed Martin, KSAT and Leaf Space, holds more than 700 radio licences and expects about $5 million in revenue this year.
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A calm sheep handling course set up after a PETA exposé will be extended to about 400 more shearers, funded by the wool industry, days after a North Otago shearer was sentenced for abusing sheep.
Three years after a fire gutted the heritage-listed former Briscoes building at Dee and Spey streets, an independent commissioner has granted resource consent to pull it down.
Southland street artist Danny Owen has worked with students on the Invercargill Student Support Network's Fresh Start course to design and paint a mural on the programme's building.
Millie McFadzien, 18, of St Peter's College in Gore, is Southland Young Enterprise Company of the Year for her eel pâté business The Lost Larder and heads to the national finals in Wellington on 9 December.
An Auckland cancer researcher says rural women, including in Southland, carry extra financial and travel burdens to get diagnosed and treated for ovarian cancer, with South Island surgery centred in Christchurch.
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A five-course Dinner in the Spotlight served on the stage, followed the next morning by a free community open day with guided tours, will mark the Civic Theatre's 120th birthday on 14 November.
Invercargill City Council's draft 2025/26 annual report records an $8.5 million operating loss and borrowings of $201.1 million, or $7,329 for every property, with auditors expected to flag uncertainty over the future shape of Southland's councils.
Eastern Southland Gallery's 50 Fish exhibition closes on Friday with an auction of trout artworks by local artists and personalities, raising money for permanent installations telling the Old Hokonui Museum's stories.
