Steve Hepburn

For more than 600 high school pupils, it was not the usual trip to the Edgar Centre.

Taieri Gorge Railway has begun investigations into buying a railcar for a service between Oamaru and Dunedin.

A blown tyre caused a trailer carrying 28 dairy cows to flip on to its side in South Otago yesterday morning.

The first step has been taken in the redevelopment of Logan Park, though the future of the old Dunedin art gallery building casts a large shadow over the project.

Auctioneer Trevor Plumbly went out with a bang on Saturday night, as he sold off more than $100,000 worth of goods at the Otago Community Hospice charity gala.

A proposed boundary change, to bring a group of Mahinerangi residents into the Dunedin city area, has fallen short of gaining concrete support from the body the group wants to join.

Traffic lights look set to be built at the intersection of Helensburgh and Taieri Rds, in Dunedin, because of the redevelopment of the nearby Wakari Hospital.

The Countdown Central supermarket, in Cumberland St, will no longer open 24 hours a day, in a move welcomed by police.

Trustpower, reeling from a ballooning bill for the Environment Court hearing into the Mahinerangi wind farm, says the process has been hijacked by a lobby group and a competitor, and ratepayers and electricity users will be the financial losers.

A suggestion the Environment Court was picking the number of turbines for the Mahinerangi wind farm was given a swift rebuke yesterday.

The main opponent of the Mahinerangi wind farm says the project's benefits are "simply puffery", and evidence produced by the Crown was nothing more than window dressing.

Trustpower has abandoned its envelope approach to the Mahinerangi wind farm and has indicated where turbines will be sited.

Canterbury bar franchise Robbies will open a tavern in the old Cock and Bull building in South Dunedin within a couple of months

It is Saturday, just past 7pm. The kids are in bed, or out, or ignoring you.

The Dunedin property market has become the first main centre in the country to slip into negative territory, although the rest of the Otago region appears to be holding up well.