Brenda Harwood

Now that the dust from the local body elections has settled, West Harbour Community Board's two new members are keen to get stuck in to the issues.

A research group that is studying and encouraging active transport to school by adolescents in Dunedin and Otago has received the University of Otago 2019 Research Group Award.

Dozens of Dunedin Rotarians will ride the buses on World Polio Day, October 24, to held end polio for good.

A two-year project by the Balmacewen Lions Club has led to the placement of 24/7 accessible defibrillators at 10 high schools in Dunedin, Milton and Palmerston.

Working effectively with volunteers, and showing appreciation for their efforts are top priorities for recently appointed Volunteering Otago manager Leisa de Klerk.

Being poor is expensive - especially when it comes to trying to access money for unexpected bills.

A pair of Dunedin artists whose giant artwork depicting the southern night sky will be installed on the enormous canvas of the Ross Creek Reservoir dam are excited at the prospect.

Improving the condition of Coast Rd from Warrington to Seacliff, more public walkways and better water pressure are top of mind for members of the Blueskin Bay Library book-share group.

The extraordinary adaptability of Norma, the Dunedin Town Hall organ, will be highlighted in this weekend's celebration of the giant instrument's 100th birthday.

A seven-year project to create a series of striking collages using hundreds of cigarette packets has been a labour of love for a local artist.

Dunedin teenager Quin Latta is off on the adventure on a lifetime, travelling to Tanzania to climb Mt Kilimanjaro.

After an extensive search for hot new writing talent across New Zealand, the fifth New Zealand Young Writers Festival will start in Dunedin next week.

While some local body election candidates show a good grasp of the issues facing Dunedin’s disabled community, others ‘‘could do better’’.

As election day looms and voting papers arrive, constituents ponder which community board candidates to support. Reporters from The Star talk to members of two of the six boards in Dunedin, who...

Fast-handed competitors will gather to pit their cube­solving skills against each other and the clock in the World Cube Association (WCA) Otago October 2019 event.

The first steps have been taken towards restoring the historic Harington Point gun emplacements on Otago Peninsula.

Port Chalmers residents are being urged to stand up and have their say, one more time, on reducing the speed limit on State Highway 88, near Port Otago.