Dene Mackenzie

Queenstown Airport was sure to benefit from the expertise Auckland International Airport would bring in managing airports and extracting the maximum profit from airport operations, Craigs Investment Partners broker Chris Timms said yesterday.

State-owned internet provider Orcon yesterday entered the mobile service market promising to shake up the competition with no-catch plans and no fixed-term contracts.

The Otago-Southland region's service industry is struggling but employers' representative John Scandrett says there is no need to panic.

Inflation in the three months ended June was softer that expected by financial markets but economists are warning that big increases are ahead.

Dunedin has an opportunity to develop a digital strategy that most other centres would envy, New Zealand Computer Society chief executive Paul Matthews says.

Inflation is forecast to have been right in the middle of the Reserve Bank's 1% to 3% target band at the end of June.

Volatile world sharemarkets and the fallout from the European debt crisis hurt the Government accounts in May, but the financial position remains well ahead of the same period last year.

Listed gold miner Oceana Gold has identified new gold resources at its Macraes gold mine which could add another one and a-half years to the life of the mine.

The musical Oliver has a timeless quality with values that crosses generations and all levels of society.

Property values across New Zealand have continued to slide in recent months but figures released this morning (Monday) by QV show Dunedin bucking the trend.

National Property Trust has bowed to unit-holder pressure and will hold a vote on July 30 on a proposal to convert it to a listed company and for NPT to take over the management contract of its properties.

Telecom is preparing for the final closure of its CDMA mobile network, the network that saved its battered reputation during the major XT network failures earlier this year.