Business

Aurora Energy's Otago consumers are in line to be hit with a price increase as the powerco looks to catch up on spending on assets.

Giving back to the community and educating more people in basic Te Reo was the goal of the winners of Otago's Young Enterprise Scheme awards this year - and they have won the competition for a brilliant but simple idea.

A vast "wine lake" of 100,000 litres of Gewürztraminer is currently waiting to be sold at a Poverty Bay vineyard, which has gone into receivership.

The latest in the crusade against weeds and pests is the topic of a field day being held tomorrow in the Hakataramea Valley. It is the second field day organised by the newly-formed Hakataramea Sustainability Collective.