Southland stories
Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Taranaki and Wellington now top the pay table, as median hourly wages climb to NZD $27 across trades and industrial jobs.
A New Zealand dairy plant is already beating hygiene benchmarks, with microbial results far below accepted limits after its first season.
New transmission upgrades and extra storage will be needed as the smelter’s exit frees up 12% of New Zealand’s electricity, experts say.
Consumers faced an extra USD $80 million bill as the Electricity Authority found Meridian’s spilling also raised emissions and fossil fuel use.
Lockdown has forced Invercargill Central to push back its planned opening, complicating talks with Farmers and bank financing for the project.
Construction firms in the south will get more local support as new purpose-built training rooms open in Dunedin.
A lack of consultation on a Southland milking shed build left two workers seriously injured, prompting fines of more than USD $300,000.
A Southland school will get Richard Loe coaching after a farm safety prize recognised a pulley system that keeps workers off silo tops.
WorkSafe says inadequate guarding still exposes workers to life-changing injuries, after two Southland firms were fined for amputations.
Growing construction demand has prompted Royal Wolf to open an Invercargill office, giving Southland customers local access to container solutions.
Dozens of projects from Whangarei to Southland are vying for national recognition at Civil Contractors New Zealand’s awards in Dunedin next week.
A lack of basic cleanup and warning procedures left a slippery berth contaminated for two days, contributing to a visitor’s death at South Port New Zealand.
Personalised workouts are in demand as agritech and long hours leave farmers needing support to stay fit, healthy and injury-free.
Bathurst Resources, which last year wrote off the value of assets covered by its Buller coal project, posted a first-half loss as it continues to wait.
CodeBlue expands South Island presence with Invercargill branch, aiming to offer cost-effective IT solutions to Southland and Central Otago businesses.
