Entries are now open for the annual ICC Surf to City on March 8, 2020. Sponsored by the Invercargill City Council and presented by Sport Southland, the ICC Surf to City is Southland’s largest participation event. The full 12km course starts at Oreti Beach and finishes at Queens Park, but there are also 6km and […]

Invercargill City Libraries and Archives are inviting one and all to a party at the Library right before the Santa Parade. The party, to be held on Saturday 30 November, will celebrate the beginning of the annual Summer Reading Challenge, a popular Library activity. Customer Experience Manager Cynthia Smith said the challenge would this year […]

Invercargill’s City Centre will be a hive of Christmas activity on Saturday 7th of December 2019 when Esk Street is closed to traffic and hosts the City Centre Christmas Festival and Market from 10am to 1:30pm. We are currently seeking expressions of interest for stallholders and food trucks for the event. You can register HERE. […]

Halloween at the Queens Park Stumpery this evening October 31, has been cancelled due to forecast high winds and rain.

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga has added Invercargill’s Te Wharepuni o Anehana to the New Zealand Heritage List as a Wāhi Tūpuna. The beautiful wharepuni was constructed in 1925 and was one of only three carved whare in the South Island in 1972, and the first whare in Te Wai Pounamu to be given wāhi […]

By Michael Solitt Stormwater Technical Officer On 21 September, Council, in association with Environment Southland, Department of Conservation, Southern Landcare Trust, Otago University and several of Invercargill’s Rotary Clubs took part in a Conservation Week event held at Queens Park. We were lucky to have such nice weather for the event, meaning it was well […]