Along the Red Hill Range, over the Cascade River and through the bush to Jackson Bay - it has been a long walk for new author Robert Long from the wilds of South Westland on his way to Dunedin for his first book launch.
A Portobello Rd resident says it is a wonder no motorists were caught in a slip that came down on to the road near Broad Bay on Saturday morning.
Residents along Mosgiel's main street are likely to have front-row seats for one of the biggest parades in the town's history later this year.
A Taieri landowner is questioning why he should to pay an Otago Regional Council levy for flood protection, when 90% of his 25ha farm went under water this week.
A walk through the 145-year-old Chain Hills rail tunnel, near Mosgiel, was once the highlight of many Noakes family birthday parties.
A similar process to that used to get the caffeine out of coffee is likely to be used to extract oil from Southland lignite.
A painting by Charles Goldie sold in Dunedin in 1915 for probably 13 guineas is expected to fetch more than $200,000 when it comes up for auction in Auckland in July.
Kiwirail's Hillside Engineering workshops yesterday unveiled a mock-up of the carriages it is building for the company's South Island tourist routes.
The group promoting KiwiRail's Hillside Engineering workshops is underwhelmed by the "local content" clause of KiwiRail's "expressions of interest" (EOI) document to potential builders of new trains for Auckland.
Members of the group pushing for Hillside to build trains for Auckland will meet this morning to thrash out where it goes next.
Any lingering hopes KiwiRail's Hillside workshops might get the chance to build trains for Auckland have been dashed.
Any lingering hopes KiwiRail's Hillside workshops might get the chance to build trains for Auckland have been dashed.
Dunedin yesterday launched its bid to have a $375 million contract for Auckland's new electric commuter trains awarded to railway workshops in Dunedin and Lower Hutt - creating as many as 1270 jobs.
Members of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union at KiwiRail's Hillside workshops are planning a rally through Dunedin's George St at 11am on June 8 in protest at not being able to tender to build electric trains for Auckland.
A Dunedin couple are tapping into the wealth already flowing to the city from Otago's offshore oil fields.
The Street - a software company in which Dunedin City Holdings has invested more than $700,000 since 2005 - should be left to quietly get on with the job.
For 364 days of the year it's not a bad place to live, really," says Jacqui Phipps, who lives on the part of the Taieri Plains flooded by the Silver Stream in 2006.
The group hoping to put wind power into the houses around Blueskin Bay is looking for a joint-venture partner.
Chairman of the group wanting KiwiRail's Hillside and Woburn workshops to build new trains for Auckland, John Christie, has defended the value of a Berl Economics report released by the group on Sunday and dismissed within hours by Transport Minister Steven Joyce.
A $1.7 million "green solution" to a Dunedin flooding problem will result in the number of houses in Somerville St decreasing by four over the next few weeks.