The New Zealand Geographic Board is now accepting public submissions on 27 proposals to assign new place names or alter existing place names, including formalising The Catlins, and putting the "h" in Wanganui.
A male tourist is dead after his van collided with a fully laden stock truck and trailer unit near Moeraki yesterday.
The Department of Conservation has revealed it received more than $8 million to settle resource consent issues, including $7.2 million from Meridian for the Waitaki hydro project.
Did you hear the one about the Russian sailor who lost his arm at sea?
Faced with a large increase in rent for his family's state house, a Mosgiel man is accusing Housing New Zealand of being a "slum landlord".
A day after criticising Air New Zealand for cancelling services to Dunedin, Otago Chamber of Commerce chief executive John Christie received a "blunt" phone call from the man responsible for the decision.
It is full speed ahead for Elsie Evans. The 108-year-old former Otago Harbour ferry received a new diesel engine yesterday.
The Southern Institute of Technology is investigating an alleged case of fraud.
The Southern Institute of Technology yesterday confirmed it was employing forensic accountants to investigate "irregularities of a financial nature".
The Dean of Dunedin the Very Rev Dr Trevor James is calling for members of the public, civic and business leaders to join him and other church leaders in a weekly lunchtime prayer at St Paul's Cathedral to help those affected by the recession.
Dunedin may be on the radar for a new jet service and cheaper regional airfares, with Pacific Blue about to test a $57 million jet at the airport tomorrow.
He may have been late but, when television chef Richard Till walked into a Mosgiel retirement village armed with cakes and enough tea towels to do the washing up, all was forgiven.
A "gamble" by Dunedin-based television production company NHNZ to have its website constructed by a local web development start-up company has paid off.
Cadbury is not ruling out further job cuts for its Dunedin plant, after the chocolate maker announced another wave of redundancies.
The New Zealand Geographic Board is preparing to put The Catlins on the map, with other Southern localities, including Jacks Point, and Fiordland, in line for possible name changes, it has been revealed.
A decision by a gaming trust to grant $75,000 in stake money to the Oamaru Harness Racing Club over community organisations has sparked debate over future funding grants.
In an effort to resolve "questionable funding practices", Minister of Internal Affairs Dr Richard Worth has pointed to a possible shake-up of the $1 billion charitable gaming trust industry.
It's cultural censorship, 150 years in the making.
Faced with falling revenue and rising compliance costs, the $1 billion charitable gaming trust industry is scaling back the number and size of grants to community organisations in desperate need of cash.
A low-cost transtasman airline is the proven model for regional international airports such as Hamilton and Dunedin, Hamilton Airport chief executive Chris Doak says.
