Author Karl (CK) Stead has apologised for quoting without permission from Janet Frame's work in his just-released memoir, even though he believes he was well within his rights to publish what he did.
Businesses mistakenly offered a remarkable but potentially expensive electricity deal last month have been given more time to think about Mercury Energy's revised offer.
Complaints about door-to-door sales and electricity bills will increase this year as power companies hike prices to pay for discounts in places where they want most of their business, industry analyst and fair-pricing campaigner Molly Melhuish says.
Maurice Davis watched through a pair of binoculars as the three-strong team of Southern climbers finally scaled one of the most challenging mountains in the world.
Contact's latest and "alarming" power price increase suggests electricity reforms have failed and should push the Government one step closer to a comprehensive inquiry, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says.
An historic Dunedin building damaged by fire more than two years ago has been sold to a city-based developer.
Health policy-makers may have underestimated demand for palliative care and are still coming to terms with how increased demand for before-death care will affect stretched resources, Hospice New Zealand chief executive Mary Schumacher says.
Another electricity retailer is eyeing Dunedin as part of a southern expansion that could take it as far south as Invercargill.
Dunedin business customers mistakenly offered drastically discounted power if they agreed to switch to Mercury Energy want more time to consider the company's latest offer.
A plethora of protrusions is expected to help protect pedestrians from the most unpredictable motorists in central Dunedin.
Claims by Southland District Council officials that at least two Southland dairy herds were infected with bovine tuberculosis after infected cows were transferred from the West Coast are unsubstantiated, an Animal Health Board (AHB) spokesman says.
A company supplying electricity to homes in Queenstown and Central Otago says it is being targeted in a systematic campaign to discredit its business and undermine its custom.
Southern electricity lines company Aurora says it will keep charging people more to get their electricity in winter despite a claim the variable rate is not working as well as it used to.
People used less electricity in Dunedin, Central Otago and the Wakatipu last month than in May 2009 as the region enjoyed a warm start to winter.
The walnut top supper table near the front door of Forno's Auctioneers neatly summarised some of the reasons why, after 24 years, Dunedin's longest working antique auctioneer is shutting shop and leaving the business.
Beverly Lawrie, of Oamaru, sat for 19 days in the High Court at Auckland, waiting for justice to be dealt to the men who killed Sergeant Don Wilkinson, her only son.
Most Dunedin electricity users will be hit with a double-whammy price increase of more than 9% as the city slips further into winter.
The demolition of the former Beach Hotel, which began this week, is the start of a series of redevelopment plans for the high-profile site in Dunedin's St Kilda.
A Dunedin woman with a seemingly insatiable addiction to physically demanding charity work will cycle the length of Britain to help raise money for blind children.
New Zealand's top diplomat in India is confident the country's security forces are doing all they can to prepare for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
