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Tomlinson breeds, owns, trains and drives Way Coola, and says the mare's mistake at Winton last start was her own fault. She drove To The Moon And Back to a Cup Day win on Tuesday.
Visitors can try the stage lighting and fly systems, see a Lego model of the theatre and record their memories, and staff will tell of Freddie, the Civic's resident ghost.
The retired international concert pianist will play Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Mozart and the late Mary Brett at the Southland Women's Club on Saturday at 7pm.
Leiva won a distinguished service award, while teachers from Verdon College, James Hargest College and Southland Girls' High School were given service awards.
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BestStart Waihopai Kindy and New Zealand Red Cross are matching donated bikes with newly settled families, and say bikes are now the greatest need.
The Invercargill Pottery Club opens its exhibition tonight, and on Saturday Esk and Don Streets close from 2pm to 10pm for a free multicultural street food market.
Gymnastics New Zealand has confirmed all five codes will compete in Invercargill from 28 September to 2 October 2027, with ILT funding support, after about 900 athletes contested this year's event.
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The collections team spent a month sorting the museum's matau, choosing hooks for beauty, recognisability and provenance, and repacking and re-recording the rest along the way.
Survivors Stories, guided by artist Lisa Benson, runs for two weeks in the old EB Games store, and Southland Help's Tina McColgan says the region needs more prevention work.
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At 12,607 square kilometres the park is now the largest dark sky park in the Southern Hemisphere, and Great South hopes stargazing will persuade more visitors to stay the night in Te Anau.
The PowerNet apprentice beat three others at Annual Connection 2026 in Pukekohe, while Omexom Invercargill's Jessie King was named Advanced Trainee of the Year.
Grant Lightfoot, a former commercial diver, met Prince William in Britain and left a roll of Kiwi Econet with the King's farm manager. It costs just under $4 a bale against $2.40 for plastic.
Muralist Meg Cloete and Invercargill teacher Bailee Reid will lead a group floral painting session, a Christmas craft class for children and a festive paint and sip, from $40 a seat.
The St Peter's College teacher, who grew up on a farm bordering the hills, draws on theology, archives and long walks to trace the Hokonui from their geology to mana whenua, farming and forestry.
The third Wyndham Street Market expects at least 4000 people, twice its first crowd, with fundraising stalls from Menzies College to the fire brigade and free zorbs and bouncy castles for children.
The one-hour concert of piano and traditional Māori instruments plays the Ascot Park Hotel's Waiau Room on 27 November, its only Invercargill date, and children get in free.
SIT staff, students and graduates featured right through the 2026 Southland Music Awards, and the newest Hall of Fame member says Invercargill's original music scene is blossoming.
Markers and story panels will go up at five sites, including Mataura Falls, Rock St and Tūtūrau Reserve, where a southern war party turned back a northern taua in 1836.
Bluff Promotions is calling for floats and walkers for its 1pm parade on Sunday 6 December, while the Kiwi Steel Rodeo's monster truck and FMX tour ends in Invercargill on 6 March.
The Gore Model Engineering Club runs its raised line beside the playground from 1pm to 3pm on Sundays, weather permitting, and offers volunteers' children free rides for a year.
The Riverton Environment Centre and South Alive run four gold-coin gardening sessions at 262 Ness Street on 14 November, with children asked to bring an old ice cream container.
The touring MUKA show lets 5 to 18-year-olds buy $90 prints by well-known artists whose names stay hidden, with adults kept outside. It moves to East Gore the next day.
The Loss and Grief Centre's remembrance trees open at Invercargill Central on 1 December, the ILT Christmas Variety Show brings 250-plus performers to the stadium, and Te Anau's parade rolls on 12 December.
The FISAF world championships run from Thursday to Saturday in Invercargill, a city whose Empire Aerobics club helped make Southland and Otago the sport's strongest regions in the country.
The SIT Gore Art for Leisure facilitator beat an estimated 150 entries for the $3000 top award, but says the recognition means more to her than the cheque, which will go straight back into art.
Former miner Carter Allan, who worked underground for 40 years, and his neighbours in Ōhai and Nightcaps told RNZ about lost shops, a pine-planted mine site, big rates bills and why they are staying anyway.
Triflor has planted 120ha this season, up from about 110ha, and its crop manager says the bulbs are heading for an above-average yield despite hail damage and an exceptionally wet start.
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The 12.4ha Castledown Wetland was overrun with willow and hawthorn until volunteers began clearing it in 2013. Now they are trapping pests, chasing funding and asking for help with a huge planting job.
