Longer, heavier but more efficient logging trucks could be seen on some Otago roads for the first time early next year.
The New Zealand Transport Agency has begun investigating a replacement for the Beaumont Bridge over the Clutha River.
Central Otago power company Pioneer Generation hopes to know by Christmas whether it will be allowed to build a wind farm on one of the highest points in South Otago.
Vastly differing views were expressed last night on how much benefit Otago electricity consumers will get from the Government's Electricity Industry Bill, being introduced to Parliament today.
A little 77-year-old biplane made of plywood and fabric and painted orange will set off from Mandeville, near Gore, on Tuesday to fly across the Southern Alps to Hokitika, where it will be the star of an aviation anniversary.
A Cadbury executive has flagged the possibility of a three-fold increase in the production of crumb at the company's Dunedin factory.
The "brains" behind last week's space-rocket flight from Great Mercury Island, off the Coromandel coast, did his rocket-building "apprenticeship" at the former Fisher and Paykel plant near Mosgiel.
Convicted fraud and now prison inmate Michael Swann (47) has received mixed reviews from people around Dunedin who have had dealings with him.
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust is alleging the Scenic Hotel Group breached an "archaeological authority" when it demolished buildings in High St, Dunedin, in September.
Dunedin drivers have performed well in their first month of not using handheld cellphones while in control of a car.
Southland Museum and Art Gallery in Invercargill has confirmed six Maori stone artefacts have gone missing and a police inquiry is under way.
The Dunedin City Council's library services manager, Bernie Hawke, is not waiting around for an architect to provide the design for a remodelled library.
Cadbury yesterday unveiled some of the $69 million of changes it has made to its Dunedin factory as it endeavours to turn it into a "centre of excellence".
A firm that specialises in financing computers in schools has set up a system for getting rid of them when they become obsolete.
Dunedin's biggest hotelier, Scenic Hotel Group, yesterday rejected the idea the Dunedin City Council's public library building in Moray Pl could be turned into a hotel.
A Wanaka member of the new Real Estate Agents Authority, Joan Harnett-Kindley, believes problems members of the public have with agents will be sorted out more quickly in future.
The Ministry of Fisheries hopes the outcome of a Dunedin District Court case involving the illegal purchase of fish will serve as a warning to others tempted to buy or sell on the black market.
Dunedin City Council staff and consultants have done "most of the homework" required to convert three floors of the former chief post office, in Princes St, into a new library.
Parts of Harbour Cone will be sold for housing if the Dunedin City Council takes the advice of the steering group it set up to find ways to protect the Otago Peninsula landmark.
A Dunedin woman hit by falling glass from the former Chief Post Office, in Princes St, believes the vacant building should be cordoned off for safety reasons.