A Dunedin cafe owner says more than a dozen regular customers are “instantly gone” after roadworks arrived outside their central city door. The first stage of the Bath St upgrades project started this month, with road cones and trucks making themselves at home between the Octagon and Bath St, in…

Trees, signs and disgruntled drivers are just the usual “day-to-day headaches” in the life of a transportable home delivery driver. But with the help of other road-users, it can be a relatively straightforward affair. A 228sq m transportable home, built by Big River Homes, hit the road after being showcased…

The crowd has answered the call from Coralcone. The menstrual cup startup reached a little over its PledgeMe crowdfunding campaign goal of $12,000 last week meaning it was now able to complete the final stages of manufacturing, heat and performance testing for its newly-developed production machinery. Coralcone’s initial manufacturing equipment…

Blis Technologies has upgraded its full-year earnings guidance, citing favourable timing of several major orders, increased sales across its business-to-business channels and an underspend in some planned research and development expenditure this year. The Dunedin-based probiotics company’s latest guidance to the NZX for the year ended March 31, 2024 was…

PGG Wrightson says it remains positive about the rural sector’s prospects over the medium to longer term. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON PGG Wrightson has downgraded its operating ebitda forecast on the back of a deterioration on market conditions impacting the agricultural sector. It was now expected to be $43 million, down…

Sir Colin Giltrap, who founded the influential Giltrap Group focusing on luxury cars and was knighted for services to motorsport, has died.Giltrap Group confirmed he had died peacefully with his family overnight aged 84.While he had stepped away from the business after suffering a fall in London last year, the…

Daniel Faitaua says it’s perfectly acceptable to discipline other people’s children because kids are becoming more and more disrespectful.The Breakfast presenter was discussing the issue with his fellow hosts after psychologist Emma Woodward said it’s rarely OK to tell someone else’s child off. Woodward said: “Telling a child off in…

For many of us, our dog is part of our whānau. But for some Kiwis, they’re much more than that, as Seven Sharp’s Rachel Parkin discovers.For Christchurch teen Lachlan Horgan and his family, assistance dogs have been a lifeline. Clever canines are in demand for kids with autism and other…

The Rangitata rail bridge is expected to be reopened to trains towards the end of next week once temporary support structures have been put in place.The bridge, spanning the Rangitata River in south Canterbury, had one of its 34 piers washed out by high flood waters last Friday.The 610m-long Rangitata…

Two people have been found dead in a paddock at a rural West Auckland property this morning.Police said they were called to a rural property on Anzac Valley Rd in Waitākere around 7.30am.Police have confirmed a ram was in the paddock and was attacking people.”Another party at the scene suffered…