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Cheyne Jenkinson rehearses for The Raft at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre. PHOTO: SOFIE WELVAERT Aspects of the Globe’s latest production might seem eerily familiar to those who found being closeted with family during the Covid-19 lockdown forced some unresolved issues to the surface. Rebecca Fox talks to those involved in The Raft.

Smooth Hill, south of Brighton. An area used most recently for forestry, is now likely to become the town dump. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON A new Dunedin landfill is proposed for Smooth Hill, beyond Brighton. But does the city need a six million cubic metre hole in the ground in which to bury its waste? Bruce Munro asks around.

This week, instead of drawing your attention to something high up, I’d like to do quite the opposite. I want you to try to find the fifth and sixth brightest stars, which will be near the horizon as darkness falls. Along the way, we will get to learn some atmospheric physics.

Photo: Getty Images I have been pottering in the kitchen since early light, radio on, steam condensing on the windows, cooking long into the afternoon. I have been making pies. Not the simply executed single-crust shallow pies, but what you might call proper pies, with high, fragile sides, a crisp pastry base and deep, luscious fillings.

Black Power gang member Alex Raivaru (left), as Tug, and actor Jake Ryan, as Damage, in a scene from Savage. Photo: Supplied When Yvette Reid went to cast the film Savage, she wasn’t just looking for actors, she tells Tom McKinlay.

A car has collided with a power pole in Dunedin.

taieri_mouth_bar_09012016.jpg This photograph of Taieri Mouth, taken in 2016, shows a deeper water channel to the north, but the nearby bar often shifts. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Boaties are being urged to be careful crossing the bar at Taieri Mouth after a near miss today.

State Highway 94, between Te Anau and Milford, will close overnight.

A few thousand people attended the Advance Party's demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns yesterday, with few wearing masks and little social distancing evident. Photo: NZ Herald Calls for more punitive action against anti-lockdown protesters, are being dismissed as unnecessary by organisers and some scientists alike.

Wallabies coach Dave Rennie. Photo: Getty Images New Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has started his rebuild for the 2023 Rugby World Cup by naming 16 uncapped players to his first squad on Sunday for Bledisloe Cup tests against New Zealand and the Rugby Championship later this year.

The mother jailed for absconding from a Hamilton isolation hotel says she spent the best part of seven days locked up in a cell on her own without a television.

Crews extinguished two couch fires in Dunedin's student area this morning.

A young boy reported dead this week in one of Oregon’s wildfires is believed to have died trying to save his grandmother, who also died.

Southland man Lochie Bellerby, one of the two New Zealanders who were on the ship. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The family of a Southland man missing after an animal freighter capsized in the South China Sea says focus should remain firmly on rescue while a "window" is still open.

Very sad': Former Whyte Waters director John MacDonald. Photo: Mountain Scene A long-time Queenstown tourism marketing and online booking company appears to be a Covid-19 victim.

i-lochiebellerby.jpg Southland man Lochie Bellerby, one of the two New Zealanders who were on the ship. PHOTO: SUPPLIED The family of a Southland man missing after an animal freighter capsized in the South China Sea says focus should remain firmly on rescue while a "window" is still open.

Katrina Epiha escaped while being returned to prison from hospital. Photo / Supplied The police hunt for a convicted murderer who escaped while being returned to prison from hospital has entered its third day.

Prevention measures and PPE use at Auckland's Jet Park Hotel are being reviewed after a worker tested positive, the first case in the five and a-half months the quarantine facility has been operating.

The Milford Road (State Highway 94) will close overnight between Te Anau and Milford owing to forecast heavy weather.

Prevention measures and PPE use at Auckland's Jet Park Hotel are being reviewed after a worker tested positive, the first case in the five and a-half months the quarantine facility has been operating.