It may take up to six months to fill the Carisbrook Stadium Trust chief executive position, but the delay was in large part to do with finding the right person for the job, chairman Malcolm Farry said.
A complaint about barking dogs in Middlemarch has reinforced the importance of dog-owner responsibility.
The man responsible for cutting Air New Zealand transtasman flights from Dunedin is expected to meet Dunedin City Council and business representatives today.
Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke will return to Dunedin next month as part of a nationwide tour where he plans to launch a controversial suicide-drug testing kit.
Chris Knox, a pioneer of the Dunedin Sound, is in hospital after a stroke, but the 57-year-old musician is already showing signs of his former self, friends say.
A decision by ACC to stop paying compensation to 170 people has been labelled nonsense by a Dunedin-based lobby group.
New Zealanders are spending an estimated $286 million a year with offshore bookmakers on racing and sports events, and that is part of more than $2 billion spent on offshore gambling annually.
The completion of the Forsyth Barr Stadium was one of the "challenges" of the Rugby World Cup but would be a major showcase for the tournament, Rugby New Zealand 2011 chief executive Martin Snedden said.
Jetstar's new domestic service, starting with a flight into Queenstown this morning, may have its wings clipped by an announcement from archrival Pacific Blue.
Tourism had the potential to lead New Zealand out of the recession, Associate Tourism Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman told the Tourism Rendezvous conference in Auckland yesterday.
Despite the keeping of poultry becoming more popular, the number of birds entered in the 119th Taieri Poultry Show on Friday and Saturday was down on last year.
A Dunedin man who was the subject of an arrest warrant to appear at the David Bain trial says he has lodged a complaint with the New Zealand Law Society about defence counsel Michael Reed QC.
The arrest warrant for a Dunedin man who was wanted as a witness in the David Bain retrial has been withdrawn.
Southern health officials have confirmed they are dealing with suspected cases of swine flu, with two patients now in quarantine or isolation.
Strong demand from the public has resulted in Emirates expanding its free connections offer on Pacific Blue flights from Dunedin International Airport - a move which has been welcomed by chief executive John McCall.
The welcome extended to an unwanted cat who made her home at the Blueskin Bay Library has not been renewed.
This fishy tale tells of thousands of salmon smolt that got away - and some that will return.
The Dunedin City Council should be more open with the public regarding its trial of chemical de-icing agent calcium magnesium acetate (CMA) on city roads, an Automobile Association Otago district councillor Lyn McKie says.
The actions of 25-year-old Austrian man who had to be rescued after going tramping with a sleeping bag and a can of baked beans have been labelled naive.
A serious crash led to a Dunedin youth being taken to hospital and the temporary closure yesterday afternoon of Three Mile Hill Rd, which had been earlier sprayed with an anti-icing agent.
