Jono Edwards

A power company's hour of free power promotion could be overloading part of Dunedin's network.

Ministries plan to present recommendations for South Island marine protection areas by the end of next month, but Otago Conservation Board members have expressed frustration at the lengthy process.

A section of George and Princes Sts will be free of buses and lower Great King St will be a public transport hive when the new Dunedin bus hub is created.

The serious act of strangulation has been minimised by the court system historically, a former Dunedin police officer says.

The Otago Regional Council is investigating a report of a property keeping wallabies in cages in Dunedin, near where one was found last month.

The regional council is urging Otago residents to vaccinate pet rabbits after concerns a new virus will spread to the region.

All it took was a can-do attitude to make a Dunedin beer take to the skies.

Dunedin's bus hub  - the ''final piece of the puzzle'' of the city's public transport network - will cost $4.4 million and is scheduled to be operational in November.

Organisers of the Dunedin Puaka Matariki Festival hope its events will get people out of the house and interacting with their community.

An "unpredictable" man linked to an Invercargill shooting should be treated with caution, police say.

A pest eradication company manager empathises with the Otago Regional Council's hunt for a Dunedin wallaby, saying scouting for the creatures is like finding a ''needle in a haystack''.

NZSKI has fired back at claims work at the Remarkables has destroyed a protected wetland.

A Dunedin knight and botanist involved in wetlands conservation is supporting legal action over a regional council consent granted to the Remarkables skifield, citing "serious concern''.

The Otago Regional Council has released plans for $2 million in flood protection work at the Dundas St bridge in Dunedin.