An organisation helping and feeding scores of vulnerable people for slightly more than half the salary of the local health board chief should be commended for excellent budgeting, and not have its funding chopped, Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says.
Partially sighted Mosgiel woman Alison Jones has been "niggling away" at authorities for years for a pedestrian underpass for the Silver Stream track at Gordon Rd bridge, and she is delighted it is finally happening.
The Otago District Health Board has backed away from a proposal to outsource Dunedin Hospital's mental health outpatient group therapy programme.
Meeting Mayor Peter Chin was akin to meeting royalty for Thai students, a school administrator said of this week's mayoral reception for a visiting group.
A mental health day centre which provides activities and support to scores of vulnerable people might have to close due to funding cuts, Advisory and Support Centre Otago (Asco) deputy chairman Graham Hambleton says.
The Dunedin City Council is switching to Vodafone for its landline and cellular calls.
A disabled woman is upset she could not take public transport between Clyde and Dunedin last Friday because bus companies refused to take her motorised wheelchair.
Highland cattle may look scary, but they are not actually dangerous animals, says farmer Grant Watts.
Two surfers were rescued from Bird Island yesterday afternoon after being caught in rips at Smails beach, Dunedin.
Poland's staunch Catholic faith would help it through the dark days of mourning for the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and scores of the country's elite in last weekend's aircraft crash, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Colin Campbell, said at last night's commemorative Mass.
Most elderly who have appealed against losing their housework help are also losing their battle with the southern health boards.
Many Westerners have been following Buddhist teachings for years, but a Dunedin psychotherapist relishes the chance to learn how to integrate them into clinical practice.
Opponents of demolishing the Blueskin Bay Library to build an environmentally friendly replacement are cautiously pleased the Waikouaiti Coast Community Board has asked the architects to cost another option.
The Dunedin Polish woman who was once a neighbour of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in Saturday's aeroplane crash, says she cannot remember much about him but their fathers were both in the Polish resistance movement.
The Dunedin Polish woman who was once a neighbour of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in Saturday's aeroplane crash, says she cannot remember much about him but their fathers were both in the Polish resistance movement.
The Otago and Southland District Health Boards are proposing changes to the mental health needs assessment service, potentially affecting 11 full-time equivalent jobs.
Knocking down an 18-year-old building to replace it with a "green" one makes no sense, Waikouaiti Community Board deputy chairwoman Geraldine Tait says.
A proposal to cut the speed limit in Seacliff is among 46 limit changes proposed by the Dunedin City Council.
The toll wrought by tsunamis in the Pacific and Asia in recent years has prompted two public meetings for north coast residents next week.
Otago Mounted Rifles' reunions are quieter affairs these days, but the surviving regiment members still enjoy their annual get-together, secretary Clive Stringer says.
