Otago

After 400 shows, the theatre is closing effective immediately, leaving 11 staff jobless and the lower South Island without a professional theatre. Video, Audio

Dunedin reels with the news the Fortune Theatre is being shut down with no plans to reopen. Its board chair Haley van Leeuwen, explains what went wrong. Audio

Bruce Hopkins is still hoping he'll meet Shania Twain. It's not looking likely. Audio

Niki Guy-Junker lives nine kilometres from her letterbox in Central Otago. She grows most of the produce she needs to make ready-to-eat meals in her home kitchen for elderly people in Roxburgh, Clyde… Audio

Barrister Anne Stevens discusses the strange case of a carpet company staff member who entered a student flat under the guise of doing a curtain inspection. Audio

Jessica Wilson of Consumer NZ explains the study which found a third of rental houses on Otago are mouldy. And Christchurch is no better. Audio

Weddings and wading knee-deep in snow on the way to Wanaka...it's been a bit of a week for Bruce Hopkins. Audio

Rabbit numbers have exploded in Otago in the past year and Shaun Moloney is contracted to help farmers and grape growers get rid of them. Audio

Stephen Dickson's frank business name says it all. The Central Otago man employs dogs, ferrets and guns to combat the region's exploding rabbit population. Audio

A series of exhumations from grave sites in the South Island at Lawrence and Milton are revealing more about the lives of our early settlers. The Otago Historic Cemeteries Bioarchaeology Project is in… Audio

The Central Otago settlement of Ophir has the dubious honour of being the coldest place in the country. Sam Leask should know. Every day the sheep farmer ducks out to record the temperature, then… Audio