Invercargill City Council is encouraging people not to travel unless necessary due to multiple road closures and ongoing hazards in the region. While the period of heavy rain has ceased, several roads in the region have been closed for flooding, rising rivers and debris. West Plains Rd where it crosses the Oreti Rver has been […]
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Invercargill experiencing effects of heavy rain
Invercargill and Southland are in the midst of dealing with an extreme weather event that may have an adverse effect on residents across the region. A period of heavy rain in Southland has resulted in flooding in many parts of the region. A state of emergency has been declared for the Gore district and Emergency […]
Read More >New Southland Museum and Art Gallery Board appointed
The newly appointed Southland Museum and Art Gallery Board has met for the first time. In August, seven people were confirmed as new members of the Board to independently oversee the museum collection. They are David Hall-Jones, Lou Sanson, Jane Stanton, Dougal Austin, Teina Herzer, Rev Evelyn Cook and co-opted member Katie McRae. Hall-Jones is […]
Read More >New rating valuations on the horizon for Invercargill
Work is already well underway on Invercargill’s general property revaluation for 2023. New three-yearly rating valuations are being prepared for every one of the city’s 26,313 properties by independent valuers Quotable Value (QV), with new values being processed for every property based on its most likely selling price if it had sold on 1 July […]
Read More >He Waka Tuia exhibition Seen/Scene captures Southland’s LGBTQIA+ community
Southland’s Rainbow community is being recognised in He Waka Tuia’s latest exhibition, Seen/Scene. Wellington art photographer Adrienne Martyn was commissioned to photograph 41 people from the Southland LGBTQIA+ community specifically for the exhibition. The idea for the exhibition came about following a movement beginning in 1989 called Day Without Art, an international response to the […]
Read More >Blessing for tuatara facility site in Queens Park takes place
Work on constructing the new tuatara facility will soon commence following the blessing of the site by mana whenua. On Friday morning, drenched in sunshine, Waihōpai Rūnaka representatives Ra Dallas and Evelyn Cook, together with Ngāti Koata representative Zealan Simpkins, of Nelson, performed karakia and a blessing of the site in Queens Park. In June, […]
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