New super-heavy trucks will not be allowed to operate between Dunedin and Oamaru until all the bridges are deemed strong enough to support them, information from the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) suggests.
There was so much interest in an Otago-Southland age group chess tournament that some competitors had to play on the floor.
Dunedin optometrist Nirosh de Silva helped raise enough money for at least eight cataract operations in the first of what he hopes will be more initiatives to tackle preventable blindness in developing countries.
A New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) investigator went undercover to watch a shuttle-bus driver travel dangerously and at high speed on the road between Dunedin and Christchurch.
Organisers of a petition to save southern neurosurgery expect about 20,000 people - possibly more - to have put their name to the campaign to keep the vital service in Dunedin.
With sight in only one eye, a right-handed Dunedin marksman shot left-handed to break the world record over a distance he had never shot before.
Moves to speed up the time it takes to switch power companies might mean fewer claims of strong-arm tactics by rivals but could cost people more and may even run counter to consumer law, industry insiders say.
Pulse Energy owner Pulse Utilities has launched a no-frills, cut-price brand that could be in the South by next year.
Bert Fox loved the electrical business so much he made the basement of his Dunedin home into a private museum visited by generations of Dunedin electricians.
Southern taxi passengers should get ready to pay more as taxi companies consider new rules compelling them to spend thousands of dollars installing security cameras in every car in their fleet.
The road through the Octagon should be closed to accommodate temporary taxi stands to assuage drivers annoyed about not being consulted about changes to their ranks, a Dunedin taxi company owner says.
Plants planned for turning Otago and Southland lignite into fuel could instead be used to turn wood into biodiesel, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says.
The trust promoting a plan to have cable cars rolling along Dunedin's High St might have to find between $13 million and $15 million to make it happen.
Protesters and onlookers outside a meeting organised for Islam Awareness Week at the University of Otago's Burns Theatre last night. Photo by Peter McIntosh.
A small group of Dunedin Muslim women protested for free speech after two others were advised they could not speak at the front of a public meeting attended by men last night.
An off-duty Dunedin taxi driver on his way to see solar-powered lights that had been installed around his mother's grave was allegedly beaten by teenagers when he stopped in South Dunedin early yesterday.
Allied Petroleum will build and supply a biofuel depot in Dunedin which it says is the first of its kind in metropolitan New Zealand.
Dunedin's biggest taxi operator says its decision not to hike fares could stabilise city prices even as rival companies get ready to review their rates.
There is a very good chance a piece of Central Otago history will be bought by a North Islander.
A push to further commercialise public transport could lead to fewer and even more heavily subsidised bus services in Otago, regional council policy and resource planning director Fraser McRae warns.
The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has upheld the New Zealand Law Society's decision not to issue a practising certificate to Michael Guest.
