Simon Hartley

Otago house prices continue to surge ahead and the separate Central Otago Lakes region again recorded the largest year-on-year gain of median prices, up 41% to $650,000.

It's the end of an era and an uncertain future for one of Dunedin's most enduring entertainment venues, Sammy's.

Wanaka's exceptional, almost 30%, population gain in recent years has underpinned a boom in house prices and the Central Otago resort town is heading towards $1 million homes.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have a few more nervous days to wait before they learn whether their joint venture proposal can go ahead.

Submissions on Oceana Gold's proposed extension of its Macraes mining operations have closed and three councils are preparing to hear them.

Chatham Rock Phosphate expects to rejoin the permitting fray surrounding seabed mining, with expectations it will make a second application to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) next year.

Retail spending was surprisingly down in August, especially at the petrol pump and hospitality, but  it was only the second time during the past 16 months.

Arrowtown has hit the $1 million milestone of house values, posing the possibility that future expansion can now only go skyward.

Austerity may well have been the theme for the mining industry's 50th anniversary conference, as Resources Minister Simon Bridges offered congratulations but also confirmed a permit fee hike,...

Mapping systems was the theme for the start of New Zealand's annual mining conference, at which Crown Research Institute GNS Science unveiled several projects.

Discussion on early-days exploration potential of a gold prospect in southeast Otago was arguably the highlight of the first day of New Zealand's annual mining conference.

New Zealand's resource sector was served up a ''state-of-the-sector'' snapshot yesterday at the annual mining conference, which could well have been headlined ''Has the sector hit rock bottom yet?''.

Auckland accounted for the lion’s share of building work put in place during the past quarter, with all building work across the country up 7% in value to $4.9billion.

Asking prices in July for houses nationally are down 1.3% on the previous month, but the Central Otago Lakes region has taken the largest hit, down 20.9% to $680,672.

PrimePort Timaru’s ageing pilot vessel  Ohau has been on the Kitchener St slipway in Dunedin’s upper harbour, for a few days of routine maintenance.

Total export values for the quarter to June were up more than 7%,  but only because the sheer volume of exports was able to overcome decreasing commodity prices.

Six logging trucks  are  working non-stop since noon yesterday  to deliver thousands of tonnes of logs from Dunedin to Port Chalmers, in a "one-off event", Port Otago says.