Add together four days, 80km of coastline, 22 volunteers and the answer is about 13 tonnes of rubbish. The Southern Coastal Charitable Trust has just completed one of its rubbish picking up expeditions on Rakiura Stewart Island’s western...
A chapter may have closed in the story of the bookseller’s life but her legacy will live on about 900m down the road. The Two Wee Bookshops’ owner Ruth Shaw shut the doors for the last time of her Manapo¯uri shops in April and has sold the...
IN 2023, the Eastern Southland Car Club resurrected the Wyndham Rally, an event it had previously organised from 1977 to 1998. In doing so, the club paid tribute to South Island rally legend Barry Robinson, who died in March 2022. The club...
A little tweak to their boutique brews has paid big dividends for Invercargill brewer Gadoochi. The boutique brewing company walked away with three medals from four entries in the Melbourne Royal Australian International Beer...