Photo: RNZ / Tim Brown
The issue of karakia at public gatherings has come to a head at a recent Otago Regional Council meeting.
Also the Gore District Council has been sentenced on a WorkSafe charge of failing to perform a duty in relation to the death of 3-year-old Lachlan Jones in one of the council's sewage oxidation ponds.
And Tim discusses Queenstown's rental woes and power outages in Otago following strong winds and heavy rain.
Tim Brown is an RNZ reporter in Dunedin covering Otago and Southland
