{"id":369299,"date":"2026-04-08T09:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:42:08","slug":"dunedin-street-lights-outage-leaves-suburbs-in-darkness-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369299\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin street lights outage leaves suburbs in darkness tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Apr, 2026 08:54 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A mass streetlight outage was reported in Dunedin. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Large parts of Dunedin have been plunged into darkness after street lights failed to switch on this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Areas affected include  St Kilda, Mornington and Ocean Grove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On social media, some residents responded with humour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cCouncil forgot to pay the bill,\u201d one person joked, while another suggested: \u201cThe<br \/>\n         council have run out of money to pay for lighting?\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Apr, 2026 08:54 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,65271,6788,19555,12513,305,78,296,3242,7973,25140,111,43,139,69,25347,17711,34864,5424,21047,32261,1961,5911],"class_list":{"0":"post-369299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-been","10":"tag-darkness","11":"tag-dunedin","12":"tag-evening","13":"tag-failed","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-into","17":"tag-large","18":"tag-leaves","19":"tag-lights","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-outage","25":"tag-parts","26":"tag-plunged","27":"tag-street","28":"tag-suburbs","29":"tag-switch","30":"tag-this","31":"tag-tonight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}