Mark Price

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.

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.

A Dunedin couple are tapping into the wealth already flowing to the city from Otago's offshore oil fields.

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.

Transport Minister Steven Joyce was yesterday "invited" to visit KiwiRail's Hillside workshops to find out for himself whether it is capable of building trains for Auckland.

Kiwirail has all but ruled out its own workshops, including Dunedin's Hillside workshops, being given the chance to "have a crack" at tendering to build $375 million worth of passenger trains for Auckland.

An announcement that TrustPower is ready to go ahead with the first stage of its Mahinerangi wind farm is expected to be made within "the next few weeks".

Repairs to 16.5km of damaged main-line railway track between Clinton and Balclutha are expected to be completed by Wednesday afternoon.

A Dunedin group hopes to bring a regular supply of biodiesel to the city in a scheme similar to one already operating in Queenstown.