Mark Price

The positioning of power poles alongside rural roads is being questioned by the Otago Land Transport Committee, as it begins taking a fresh look at road safety.

Judy Trevathan was once called a "growly b . . . " by a passenger attempting to climb on to the roof of the Taieri Gorge train late one night on the way back from a barn dance.

The 90-year-old stewards' grandstand at the Forbury Park Trotting Club has been roped off while structural engineers complete a report on its safety.

A recipient of Careys Bay artist Ralph Hotere's generosity 41 years ago could collect as much as $500,000 on Thursday night.

A cycling "nightmare" on State Highway 1 north of Dunedin will soon have its shoulders broadened to make it safer.

Those who get lost in the bush will soon have something extra to worry about. The map of New Zealand they are puzzling over just might be a different version to the one their rescuers are working from.

A Dunedin family has vowed not to give up on its quest to have a "remarkable Dutchman" honoured by the New Zealand Government.

Otago roading projects are to receive $295 million over the next three years, $51 million less in subsidies than Otago land transport authorities were seeking.

The board of Tauranga-based TrustPower is expected to announce early next year that it is ready to start building its $400 million Mahinerangi wind farm, near Dunedin.

The 17-year-old Kings High School pupil whose car crashed into Otago Harbour said he and his young passengers thought they would die as water rushed into the vehicle.

With a home in the walls of Windsor Castle (literally), with access to the British Royal Family's personal golf course, with membership of the Royal Household Cricket Club and with "the best job in the world", former Dunedin tenor Nick Madden is not about to call time on his British OE.

The hundreds of wind turbines planned for electricity production in the South just might become yesterday's technology some time in the next decade.

New Zealand's oldest competing cowboy is thinking about hanging up his spurs after an international rodeo event in Christchurch in November.

More than a dozen native shrubs planted to screen a colourful heart-shaped memorial alongside Dunedin's Southern Motorway have been torn out.

Former Auckland soprano Joanna Foote (25) won her first singing competition last night, claiming the 2009 Otago Daily Times Aria title at the Glenroy Auditorium in Dunedin.