The Latest Breaking News from Southland

The incoming chief executive of big hydro generator Meridian has disclosed for the first time why the gentailer canned its multi-billion dollar plan to build a green hydrogen production plant in Southland. Successive governments have championed hydrogen as a key energy in decarbonising heavy vehicles, ships and planes. After the…

Southland Holdings announced a $60 million wastewater treatment plant contract.

The power struggle between the Southland town’s new mayor, fellow councillors and chief executive takes a surreal turn.

Meridian Energy's proposed large green hydrogen electrolyser in Southland would raise power prices but have a relatively modest impact on climate pollution, a new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has found

First a no-confidence vote in the mayor and now a petition calling on the CEO to resign have fizzled in the festering Southland local-body power struggle.

The Government’s new winter grazing rules are starting to bite but will the environment improve?

Cyclone Gabrielle’s hammering of Hawkes Bay has ignited fears in Southland of bridges failing and farmland flooding through “mismanagement” of accumulated gravel.

Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, “drowning as a cause of death” has been thrown into doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem

Drought-hit Southland has had welcome rain but more is needed before water and fire restrictions are lifted.