![Calendar Girls Julie Smith, playing Chris, and Lyndal Ludlow, playing Annie, prepare for the upcoming show. The pair ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/k/i/t/2/image.related.StuffSplash.300x400.1lkig7.13kgwq.png/1505073660261.jpg)
Exposing all for play
Raw, real and hilariously fun, is how cast and crew of the upcoming Calendar Girls show are describing it.
Expo another success
![Phil and Stacey Short with Kade, check out the Smith's City 35th Rice's Expo deals on furniture at ILT Stadium Southland.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/k/d/v/t/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lkdxo.13kgwq.png/1505073660261.jpg)
Slashed prices have once again hooked in keen buyers set to jazz up their homes.
Lightning knocks out power, net
Invercargill's lightning storm struck a little too close to home for residents in South Invercargill.
Greens seek fresh approach
The Green Party has said Environment Southland is not doing enough to protect the waterways at Waituna Lagoon.
Biggest watercolour painting sold
Otautau Gallery sells its biggest watercolour painting, but it's not too late to view.
Season underway at Teretonga
Two exciting endurance races launched the 2017/2018 motor race season at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend.
Ken's beautiful disaster
![When Ken was taken to hospital his linesman colleagues dropped off loads of firewood for his family. "That meant ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/d/7/y/u/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lckeq.png/1505109197023.jpg)
The defining moment in Ken McIntosh's life came when he woke saturated by his own spinal fluid.
Museum roof gets spring clean
The Southland Museum and Art Gallery has had a spring clean that has left it looking new.
Ken's beautiful disaster
The defining moment in Ken McIntosh's life came when he woke saturated by his own spinal fluid.
Airbnb blaze sparks warning
![Six members of a Malaysian family of 10 were taken to hospital after fire broke out in this Christchurch Airbnb property ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/k/z/t/8/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lktii.png/1505111987405.jpg)
Tourism industry says Christchurch Airbnb fire that hospitalised six a wake-up call for accommodation providers and guests.
Second Wanaka pool delay
![Queenstown Lakes sport and recreation manager Simon Battrick.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/i/b/2/4/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1li9vg.png/1505100496640.jpg)
Council staff explain reasons for Wanaka pool delay and what the special pool rate covers.
Lifting a 76-tonne roof
![The legs are bolted into place after six cranes lift a 76 tonne roof on a commercial building into place, in Queenstown.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/k/5/p/o/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lk69y.png/1504929543470.jpg)
Six cranes took several hours to turn a large new Queenstown building upside up.
Queenstown companies win tourism awards
![The TSS Earnslaw, owned by Real Journeys, approaches the dock at Walter Peak after crossing Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/f/m/4/c/v/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ljtx4.png/1504846153075.jpg)
The People's Choice was voted on by visitors at 15 eligible finalists.
Letters: Let those who pay come first
![Freedom camping in Lumsden.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/j/h/y/x/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ljiaj.png/1504834578487.jpg)
OPINION: Letter writers on SDC freedom camping submissions process, Russian military exercises and Sea Shepherd.
Letters: Nine years later
![Prime Minister Bill English talks to Aurora College students on Wednesday.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/j/3/y/n/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lj45j.png/1504816904328.jpg)
OPINION: Letter writers call time up for National, question transparency of petroleum block offers, and recall the last years of the Puysegur Point lighthouse.
Public looking hard at anti-suicide initiatives.
![26082017News.John Hawkins.Southland Times/Stuff.
Shoe campaign for suicide awareness displayed 579 shoes in Queens Park, ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/a/t/3/x/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ljsum.png/1504845738851.jpg)
OPINION: Confronting suicide is high on the social agenda, which means it's climbing political agendas.
Penalise abusers, not users, of water
![Central Otago's Manuherikia River](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/j/4/p/u/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lj4pj.png/1504819981305.jpg)
OPINION: Labour's irritagion tax/royalty is like taxing cars - but only white ones.
Heartland move would be giving up
![Southland Stags fans show their support during the Ranfurly Shield round four Mitre 10 Cup match between Canterbury and ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/l/1/v/8/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lkz9d.png/1505107500809.jpg)
It is time for Southland rugby as a whole to roll the sleeves up and not to give up, Logan Savory says.
Kelly Thompson trained big race winners
![Invercargill horse trainer Kelly Thompson.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/k/y/s/1/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lkwy7.png/1505104253316.jpg)
Prominent racehorse trainer Kelly Thompson died in Invercargill on Monday.
Men to showcase skills
![Angee Shand is busy organising the New Zealand Men's Netball Championships at ILT Stadium Southland on Septebmer 13-16.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/k/w/r/9/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lkx5t.png/1505092054639.jpg)
"I think our netball community will really embrace and relish the opportunity to see the game like they haven't seen before."
Fast food in place of hospital
![The former Dee St Hospital in Invercargill](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/h/o/e/w/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lherq.png/1504665925681.jpg)
Most Southlanders that were born in the old Dee St Hospital would look at the buildings with a certain fondness.
Walking with wine
![The 4 Barrels Walking Wine Trail vineyard participants: Carolyn Murray, of Scott Base, Misha Wilkinson, of Misha's ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/g/a/m/i/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1lg0d1.png/1504571560677.jpg)
Four Cromwell vineyards have come together to create the town's first walking wine trail in response to a swell of wine tourism across the region.
Telling Dan Davin's story
![Dame Fiona Kidman is one of the keynote speakers who will be presenting at the Dan Davin Conference in Invercargill this ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/e/g/1/w/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ldxbn.png/1504237785795.jpg)
Writers and academics are converging on Invercargill this weekend to celebrate the work of Southland author Dan Davin.
Central Otago viticulturist pipped at post
![Annabel Bulk, from Felton Road, came second in the Bayer Central Otago Young Viticulturist of the Year 2017.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170911151909im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/k/f/u/q/a/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ldz65.png/1504222327254.jpg)
Central Otago's Annabel Bulk just missed out on becoming the first woman in six years to win the Bayer Young Viticulturist of the Year 2017.