http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ Latest Content for Otago en-nz Copyright 2010 APN HOLDINGS NZ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:25:08 +1200 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss APN RSS Generator webnews@nzherald.co.nz webmaster@nzherald.co.nz http://www.nzherald.co.nz/images/nz_little_logo.gif http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/headlines.cfm?l_id=141 Today was the coldest morning of the year, according to www.weatherwatch.co.nz weather analyst Philip Duncan. The morning was colder than predicted with Hamilton dropping to zero and Palmersto http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632742&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:53:43 +1200 It's just her week. Hollie Smith's beautiful new album Humour and The Misfortune Of Others , released on Monday, is getting five-star reviews, television networks are scrambling for an interview and, to top it all off, she has announced... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632752&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 A faulty signal was the cause of an electricity outage in the Queenstown region this morning, Transpower says. About 11,000 customers in the Wakatipu Basin were left without power for just over an hour when the fault occurred in... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632403&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:36:03 +1200 The year's first sprinkling of snow is expected to dust mountaintops in the Catlins tonight, an "unseasonable" phenomenon part of an early cold snap chilling the South Island. Metservice forecaster Andy Downs said people in the... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632332&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:35:17 +1200 Otago University students have abandoned their legal challenge to the university's controversial code of conduct. The code was introduced in 2007 after an escalating number of disorder incidents involving Dunedin students. It gave... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632309&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:00:28 +1200 A cold front forecast to hit New Zealand tomorrow will result in abrupt temperature drops in the South Island. Queenstown is forecast to reach 20degC during the day, then plunge to 2degC on Wednesday morning, said MetService spokesman... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632190&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:07:17 +1200 A confrontation between three men at a late-night cook-up in a holiday park kitchen near Queenstown led to one being hospitalised with stab wounds, police say. Two men were using the kitchen at the Glenorchy Holiday Park about... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10632142&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:11:34 +1200 Dunedin company Transpacic Industries Group (NZ) Ltd has been ordered to pay $140,000 over the death of an employee hit by a vehicle while collecting rubbish in February 2009. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10631915&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 An Elvis Presley record thought to have been signed by the King himself has been revealed as a forgery after it was realised the LP was signed eight years after the singer died. Elvis Sings Country Favourites was one of about 20... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10631529&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:18:11 +1200 Two flatmates had an unexpected dinner guest when a woman drove in through the living room window. University of Otago student Kevin Lewis said he was putting his leftover meal in the fridge about 8pm when the walls of his Duke... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10631258&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 Young designers from New Zealand and beyond will compete for prizes at the iD Dunedin Emerging Designer Awards tomorrow night - including 20-year-old Aucklander Brooke Fairgray. The former Whitecliffe College of Art and Design... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10631301&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 New Zealand's first biodiesel station has opened in Queenstown. The Queenstown Lakes Biodiesel Consortium will supply B20 blended biodiesel -- 20 per cent biodiesel and 80 per cent standard diesel -- to commercial vehicles. The... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10630903&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:36 +1200 Otago coach Mike Hesson has been called into the Black Caps coaching team to assist for the next two and a-half weeks. Hesson has led the Volts to two titles in the last five seasons and has coached New Zealand A and development... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10630748&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 Fire crews from Ranfurly, Naseby and Omakau have managed to bring under control a fire which has destroyed a garage and service station early today. Two main streets have been blocked off in the central Otago town of Ranfurly as... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10630645&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:54:44 +1200 Police dive squad members yesterday recovered the body of a an Alexandra man who disappeared after falling out of a rowing boat into a central Otago lake on Saturday. Alexander John Smolenski had been rowing on Lake Dunstan, near... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10630622&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:16:09 +1200 Police dive squad and two boats were today continuing to search for the body of a 60-year-old man, who disappeared after falling out of rowing boat into a central Otago lake yesterday. Alexander John Smolenski from Alexandra had... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10630493&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:24:06 +1200 Police hold grave fears for a rower who disappeared after falling into a central Otago lake today. The man had been rowing on Lake Dunstan, near Cromwell about 8.30am, a southern communications police spokesperson said. The... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10630329&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:34:27 +1200 Dunedin police say the girl in a CCTV photo from Dunedin's The Warehouse is not Britain's missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann. Acting Southern Police District Commander Inspector Dave Campbell told One News police will not... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10629897&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:48:29 +1200 A reported sighting of missing British girl Madeleine McCann in Dunedin was disregarded by Portuguese police, it emerged yesterday. The CCTV footage was taken at The Warehouse in South Dunedin in December 2007, seven months after... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10629802&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200 David Eggleton, who has edited the latest Landfall (it now has a revolving editor), has produced a mix of writers that is immensely satisfying. Literary journals are always in danger of becoming clubhouses, but Eggleton's issue... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/otago/news/article.cfm?l_id=141&objectid=10629421&ref=rss newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +1200