David Loughrey

Plans for a daily air service between Dunedin and Queenstown have attracted plenty of early support, but may face hurdles before they can fly.

Susan Brettingen has been a New Zealand fan for more than 30 years and a Dunedin Sound fan for almost as long, but it took an epiphany late last year to finally bring her to this country.

Daily flights between Dunedin and Queenstown are planned for late this year or early next by a newly formed regional airline.

The launch in Dunedin of the fastest internet speed in the southern hemisphere got the backing of a local business yesterday, as 1Gbps broadband was switched on.

Yesterday, four men and a woman were sentenced over the murder of Justin McFarlane, a 35-year-old North Otago dairy worker and small-time drug dealer. David Loughrey was in court and looks back over case.

Margaret Miller came in contact with her first miniature horse about 12 years ago, when she was asked to look after one on her Taieri property.

A stony demeanour has not been enough for Queen Victoria to ward off the latest ill-treatment by Dunedin vandals.

The men and woman she fights for have been accused of sometimes horrific crimes, yet after three decades of practice, Dunedin barrister Anne Stevens still sees ''fellow souls'' in those she represents. David Loughrey talked to the former Takaka hippie whose fierce cross-examinations make her one of the city's more formidable advocates.

The pages opened on Dunedin's festival of left-field performance art last night, with the programme launch of the 12th Dunedin Fringe Festival.

Tourists found themselves driving in circles, but other than that, work yesterday that closed Portobello Rd on the Otago Peninsula went off without a hitch.

Dunedin has a new elite athlete - a Mosgiel nurse who took on the cream of Taihape gumboot-throwers and emerged New Zealand champion.

A Dunedin man with a lifelong weight problem says he is desperate for weight-loss surgery to give him a normal life.

Viewing penguins, touring heritage buildings, and taking photographs of the Dunedin Railway Station are all good things to do when you come to Dunedin. For long-term residents, though, a favourite activity is being angry. To help newcomers, David Loughrey has put together a guide to being angry in Dunedin.

A collaborative roading plan worth more than $1.2 billion, put together by the Otago and Southland regional councils, has laid out priorities for southern roading.

Juliette Hayes was led down the aisle at Knox Church last night for a big moment in her life.

Fluoro-vested workmen were still dragging barriers off the road, and just nine seconds had elapsed since the lights were turned on, when a truck took advantage of the first green arrow at Dunedin's Anzac Ave traffic lights.

The captain of HMNZS Wellington says it was his decision, and his alone, not to board vessels caught poaching toothfish near the Antarctic coast.

A Wanaka man understood to be an experienced climber is in the intensive care unit at Dunedin Hospital in a serious condition, after falling 6m while his climbing party was returning from the Darran mountains near Milford Sound, in Fiordland.