Allison Rudd

As if being moved to a new location once wasn't enough, a South Otago church is on the move for a second time in its 142-year history.

When offering a biodiesel blend in Queenstown was first mooted, tourist operator Tim Barke was keen.

If the 19th century was the coal age and the 20th century the petrol age, the 21st century will be the bioeconomy age, Bioenergy Association of New Zealand executive officer Brian Cox says. Reporter Allison Rudd examines the association's national bioenergy strategy and the momentum it has generated since its release a year ago.

New Zealand stock exchange head Mark Weldon is shifting his attentions south.

Dunedin Roman Catholic Bishop Colin Campbell could be in line for a "rap over the knuckles" from the Pope for strongly criticising a new translation of the official prayers, responses and music used in Catholic Masses, a Dunedin academic says.

A first-time Dunedin property developer says he is pleased a lengthy dispute with the Otago Regional Council that resulted in prosecution and cost him more than $100,000 is unlikely to happen to anyone else.

Dunedin "appears to be addressing the right things" in its planing to ensure the city successfully caters for economic growth and people in the future, a visiting Scottish urban planner says.

A Middlemarch tourism operator whose main business failed last month has assured creditors he is no longer trading and did not transfer assets from the company before its liquidation.

Students "loitering" on the footpath outside Otago Polytechnic to smoke "make it look like a British council estate", one staff member says.

The trust hoping to erect a cluster of wind turbines to provide electricity to Blueskin Bay area residents is about to begin the next phase - engaging with the community.

Retrieving sediment samples from the sea bed more than 2.3km below an Antarctic ice shelf has led University of Otago researcher Prof Gary Wilson to an inescapable conclusion: human activity has pushed the Earth to the edge of climate instability and it is up to humans to change that.

Slogging up a Dunedin hill on a trusty bicycle, many a cyclist must wish for an instant burst of power.

Dunedin building companies are optimistic new homes are back on the agenda for property seekers.

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira covers a lot of ground in an hour.