Bluff, Gore, Te Anau, Winton, Riverton, Rakiura and the wider region.
A vegetation fire that broke out near Mossburn on Sunday afternoon has burned about 80 hectares of grazing land and native bush, with six helicopters working to shield two telecommunications towers before gales grounded them.
Southland District Council is weighing three short-term options to get the closed Curio Bay campground open for summer after the trust that ran the Catlins site walked away from an expired lease.
The Hilbre Avenue water tower, part of Gore's skyline for 78 years, has been demolished to make way for a new reservoir, completing a major stage of the town's drinking water upgrade.
A Department of Conservation survey has found the invasive algae didymo in the Kaipo River in northwest Fiordland, prompting DOC and Southland Fish & Game to renew their plea to anglers, hunters, trampers and packrafters.
A single juvenile Undaria plant found on a mooring line near Pukeweka Island, at the southern tip of Stewart Island/Rakiura, has been removed after a fisherman reported it to Environment Southland.
