Steve Hepburn

More than 40,000cu m of sand has been dumped on Dunedin's St Clair and Middle beaches in the past year in an attempt to combat erosion, but it is only a short-term measure.

Is it time to get the bike out? Taking the car to work, sports or a friend's house is a rite of passage for people in the South, but that could change in the face of rising prices at the petrol pump.

Trustpower has reiterated that it may truck 72-tonne machines through Mosgiel's main street to its inland wind farm.

The first Dunedin farm park has been granted resource consent.

Dunedin youngster Courtney Caulfield should know when to shuffle her feet and kick up her heels - she has plenty of family experience to count on.

One small Dunedin bowling club says the Dunedin City Council's proposed trade waste bylaw changes and fees will be the "end of us", while one of the city's biggest sporting clubs has labelled them "bureaucracy gone mad".

More than 1000 spectators and 900 players. One thousand pies, 300 hamburgers and 400 sandwiches devoured.

Taxi drivers believe the new taxi stand in Dunedin's upper Octagon is dangerous, and lives are being put at risk.

It was off the beaten track but it was a trip well worth making.

Transpower, the national grid operator, has taken the first step in upgrading transmission lines in Central Otago to take power north from new power projects in the South.

There appears little prospect of rain soon filling southern hydroelectricity lakes, but unless rain falls within three weeks, a concentrated power conservation campaign will begin.

The allocation of matches and teams for the 2011 World Cup took another step forward yesterday, with southern organisers saying selling out Carisbrook on July 12 would go a long way in attracting games to the South.

Aspiring domestic airline Kiwijet has not disappeared off the radar but says it will only launch if fuel prices drop, and not before next year.

The boss of a bus driver who was issued with a ticket for stopping in the middle of Dunedin's main street to pick up a running passenger says the ticket was unfair, and in other cities buses are encouraged to stop in the middle of streets.