Blue Sky Meats, whose shares trade on the Unlisted platform, has agreed to acquire Gore-based Clover Export.

A Southland farmer has been ordered to pay $152,000 in fines and reparations after a worker on his farm was crushed to death in August last year.

The body of a missing man whose dinghy was found in an Invercargill river has been recovered.

A 27-year-old Invercargill man has been arrested following an armed robbery of a Southland dairy yesterday.

A 26-year-old man suffered a fractured skull in a "senseless" unprovoked attack in Invercargill over the weekend.

Devastated family demands answers after heavily pregnant mother of three died two days after she was sent home from hospital still complaining of chest pains.

The designer of the Southland Stadium, the roof of which collapsed under heavy snow in 2010, has been expelled from the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ.

The Invercargill woman charged with keeping too many cats on her city property can be now be named.

The Invercargill woman charged with keeping too many cats on her city property is continuing the fight to keep her name secret.

Dangerous black ice is expected on southern roads tomorrow morning, and drivers are being urged to take extreme care.

The weather system that brought heavy snow to Otago and Southland was this morning sitting just north of Christchurch and is heading up the country.

Severe rain and wind warnings and a drop in temperatures have been issued for parts of the South Island and lower North Island this weekend.

Invercargill police used illegal and unjustified excessive force by letting a police dog bite and drag a suspected burglar for almost a minute, an IPCA probe found.

The gas bottle explosion that rocked central Invercargill yesterday, seriously injuring the man transporting it in his ute, is extremely rare and will take some investigating to find out why it blew up, fire experts say.

Investigators are picking through shards of glass and twisted metal to work out why a gas bottle exploded in Invercargill today, injuring two people

Firefighters are dampening down hot spots after a block of shops caught fire in Invercargill this morning.

Police are looking for a man who exposed himself to two teenage girls as they walked through an Invercargill park yesterday.

A suspended school principal has failed in her bid to be reinstated in time to farewell children at their last school assembly of the year.

A 78-year-old woman and 76-year-old man are among 17 people, most with connections to the Invercargill-based Road Knights motorcycle gang, charged after a police swoop on 14 properties yesterday.

An offer has been placed on a large, run-down Invercargill house which is on the market for just $1, according to reports.

An offer has been placed on a large, run-down Invercargill house which is on the market for just $1, according to reports.

The men involved with a multimillion-dollar cannabis-growing ring in the South Island wore balaclavas and carried firearms while harvesting hundreds of plants, a judge said in the High Court in Invercargill.