Mark Price

Members of Dunedin's small Coptic Christian community marched through George St on Saturday to highlight an act of terrorism in Egypt earlier this month.

Time is running out for gourmets who want to savour a last fine-dining experience at one of Dunedin's culinary institutions.

A thousand relics from the pre-digital age will be auctioned in Dunedin later this month.

Dunedin looks likely to remain a two-dimensional city in a 3D world - at least, that is, in a cinematic sense.

Otago beekeepers are hoping the region's cold winters will help them control the bee parasite varroa.

An 1870s relic of gold rush rivalry between Dunedin and Invercargill is to be put back to use in Mandeville, near Gore.

Having come up with the idea of mounting a modern-day expedition, Mark Price needed something to explore. All the good ideas had long been taken.

The Otago Daily Times shipping writer Doug Wright, of Port Chalmers, celebrated 55 years as a newspaper columnist in August. He also turned 80 this year and says he has no plans to retire from his "On the Waterfront" column any time soon. Mark Price reports.

He was born at Queen Mary Maternity Hospital, grew up at Green Island and went to primary school in Caversham.

A Dunedin second-hand bookshop has been judged one of the 10 best in the world.

Demolition of the 90-year-old stewards' stand at the Forbury Park Trotting Club in St Clair has begun.

People used to dealing with the hydro generation issues of the Waitaki River are struggling to see how two competing power companies can work together to use the same resource wisely.

Scenic Hotel Group executive chairman Earl Hagaman has condemned the Historic Places Trust over the way it dealt with his company's demolition of old buildings in High St earlier this year to make way for a car park.

Longer, heavier but more efficient logging trucks could be seen on some Otago roads for the first time early next year.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has begun investigating a replacement for the Beaumont Bridge over the Clutha River.

Central Otago power company Pioneer Generation hopes to know by Christmas whether it will be allowed to build a wind farm on one of the highest points in South Otago.

A little 77-year-old biplane made of plywood and fabric and painted orange will set off from Mandeville, near Gore, on Tuesday to fly across the Southern Alps to Hokitika, where it will be the star of an aviation anniversary.