Mark Price

For those finding life aboard their super yacht is becoming a little dull, SuRi, berthed in Otago Harbour for the last five weeks, is ever-ready to sail to the rescue.

Neither the New Zealand Law Society nor Michael Guest is willing to say why he still has not been issued with a practising certificate so he can resume work as a lawyer.

A member of the Otago Regional Council has changed sides in the argument about the proposed rezoning of the harbourside area of Dunedin.

An Otago Chamber of Commerce advertising campaign aimed at putting pressure on the Dunedin City Council to drop its controversial plan change 7: harbourside, is being backed by more than 160 businesses.

The new offshore patrol vessel, HMNZS Otago, has run into more problems.

The Otago Peninsula house at 100 Camp Rd, which was subject to a mortgagee sale, has been sold.

A crane has been brought in to begin replacing railway bridge 217 at Burkes Bay.

It is one of the final stages of the NZTA State Highway 1 cycleway through the city.

The Otago University Students Association has abandoned court action against the university's code of student conduct.

Last year, 3024 New Zealand houses were sold in mortgagee sales - a 500% increase on 2007 and the highest number since records began. One of those forced sales involved the Corish family's Otago Peninsula "dream home", which has a rateable value of $3.75 million.

The Dunedin City Council will damage the city's economy by changing the zoning of harbour-side land, according to Dunedin planner Don Anderson, of Paterson Pitts Resource Management Ltd.

Philippa Mitchell is off to Perth on holiday next week.

For the first time in 40 years, a train will stop to pick up passengers at the former Port Chalmers Upper railway station tomorrow.

Three of the main heavy industries in the harbour area of Dunedin say they could be put out of business by a Dunedin City Council proposal to rezone harbourside industrial land so it can be used for residential and commercial use.