A university of Otago neuroscientist has helped unlock the secrets of a protein that may alleviate the symptoms of debilitating and deadly motor neurone disease.
Scissors flashed like lightning in the Dunedin Town Hall as some of the South's best stylists battled through a fine mist of hairspray for their shot at national glory.
The Government must consider new data suggesting people continue to spend more to provide even a basic standard of nutrition for their families, a University of Otago nutrition specialist says.
Southland farmers might be asked to take part in a voluntary testing regime to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis, Environment Southland chief executive Ciaran Keogh says.
Pure biodiesel could be sold from pumps in Dunedin and Queenstown after a funding boost from the Government, the man co-ordinating two biodiesel supply consortiums says.
An increased council subsidy for regional bus services might reduce the isolation of some Dunedin communities, while boosting how much people have to spend in their local economies, a sustainable living advocate says.
Dunedin's new big-block hardware trader will target tradesmen from outside the city after it secures a foothold in the competitive do-it-yourself market.
Disreputable trucking companies will fold as changes to the road-user charges regime claw back some of the up to $160 million the scheme is costing the economy, industry insiders say.
Some of the first sods in TrustPower's 200MW Mahinerangi wind farm project will be turned when engineers start to widen the roads that will carry the first of its turbines.
Thousands of fans who bought tickets for next year's Rugby World Cup had their transactions knocked back after problems with their credit cards.
More than 3800 southern houses have been retrofitted with insulation in the first year of a national energy efficiency scheme.
Dunedin social service workers expect a surge in the number of cash-strapped families looking for help to pay winter-time electricity bills that could be as high as $2000.
There are still very real concerns that the emissions trading scheme will be a millstone around the neck of an already overburdened land transport industry, former Act New Zealand and Labour MP and new Land Transport Forum chief executive Ken Shirley said.
Neville Fraser's first swing from the tee on the third hole at Belleknowes Golf Club was the sort of unorthodox cracker many golfers spend a lifetime trying to emulate.
Be ready to pay more for your bread, your milk, your vehicle - in fact, be prepared to pay more for just about everything that has been freighted to wherever you buy it.
Southerners will not know the true cost of the emissions trading scheme until at least this time next year, Kai Point Coal general manager Chris O'Leary says.
Tony Marshall has a couple of boys, a couple of heat pumps, and a couple of cars, and he knows looking after each of them will be affected in some way by the emissions trading scheme.
It might be a case of opposites attract when New Zealand Prime Minister John Key finally sits down to do business with new Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, a University of Otago observer of the transtasman relationship says.
Southern social agencies can expect strong and consistent demand as the recession's enduring hangover focuses on the low-skilled unemployed, Methodist Mission chief executive Laura Black says.
The Government is finalising a new deal to electronically manage and monitor non-casino gaming machines in a bid to tackle double-dipping and misappropriation of charitable funds.
