New Community Wellbeing Fund Committee to meet in two weeks

The first meeting of the ICC’s new Community Wellbeing Fund Committee will be held on Thursday 18 February. Three new community appointees – Meggy Bartlett-McBride, Angela Blair and Nathan Burdon will join Councillors Lindsay Abbott, Rebecca Amundsen, Alex Crackett, Peter Kett and Graham Lewis. Decisions on the first funding round, applications for which closed on […]

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New collaborative role to help strengthen changes

If Tim Fletcher has his way, Southlanders will soon be swapping their cars and utes for pedal and foot power a lot more. Fletcher is in his first week of an exciting new role – Active Transport Innovator. The role is a joint initiative between Healthy Families Invercargill, and the Invercargill City and Southland District Councils. It is the first time such a position has been […]

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Ballots hitting mailboxes for by-election

Voting opens today in the by-election for a seat at the Invercargill City Council table. Deputy Electoral Officer Michael Morris said everyone enrolled to vote should start seeing their voting papers arrive in their mailboxes from today. “Voting is easy, you can fill out your ballot and send it back to us in the post, […]

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Smelter extension “great news” – Southland Mayoral Forum

Southland Mayoral Forum Chair and Gore District Council Mayor Tracy Hicks says Tiwai Pt Aluminium Smelter remaining open until 2024 is “great news” for the region. “This morning’s announcement is great news for Southland, and most importantly for the people whose livelihoods depend on the smelter,” Mr Hicks said. “I would however stress that this […]

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Independent review recommends no change in the current level of air traffic control for Invercargill

A three month review of the controlled airspace around Invercargill’s airport has concluded that there should be no change to the current levels of Air Traffic Control. General Manager of Invercargill Airport Ltd, Nigel Finnerty, said the comprehensive study was undertaken by Astral Aviation Consultants in association with Melbourne based R2A Due Diligence Engineers & […]

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Candidates for Invercargill City Council by-election announced

Nominations for next year’s Invercargill City Council by-election closed at 12 noon today. The confirmed list of candidates is; Wade Devine Tom Downey Simon Edwards Bernadine Goldsmith Wayne Harpur Carl Heenan Marcus Lush Kevin Mulrooney David Pottinger Michael Morris, Deputy Electoral Officer, is delighted with the high interest in the position left vacant in October […]

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