High levels of community support have boosted the confidence of the Otago Peninsula Biodiversity Group in its efforts to eradicate possums from the peninsula.
Outram School pupils received a special visitor this week - Labrador-huntaway cross dog Meg, who was found after a five-week search.
The introduction of standardised, confronting packaging for tobacco products is cause for celebration for members of Smokefree Otago.
The new partnership between Sinclair Wetlands/Te Nohoaka o Tukiauau and Pan Pac Forest Products' Milburn sawmill will be highlighted for World Wetlands Day early next month.
''Wonky Donkey Man'' Craig Smith, and his faithful sidekick Kaha, will be on hand to entertain children at this weekend's Otago Taieri A&P Show.
The sun pours in the windows of Daffodil House, warming the comfortable, open plan kitchen and living area.
Creating a tukutuku panel was the ultimate group project for Artsenta artists, resulting in a ‘‘visual representation of diversity’’.
A group of West Harbour business owners and commercial boat operators are calling for action on the heavily silted Carey’s Bay pontoon.
Dunedin is being urged to tidy up its act, after local Rotarians filled a trailer with rubbish during a community clean-up project in North Dunedin.
The call has gone out for parents, whanau and the wider community to step up in support of the city's youth as part of a "grassroots'' movement.
The high ratio of ‘‘pokies’’ to the population of Mosgiel has made the area the focus of 2016 Problem Gambling Awareness Week, which runs from September 5 to 11.
The Dunedin City Council is about to unveil plans for a proposed South Dunedin community hub and wants residents to provide feedback.
Pop-up cafes, traffic, plans and discussion on walkways and cycleways are all on the cards in the wake of preliminary results of the Greater Green Island Community Network survey of households.
Registrar of electors Dee Vickers is constantly amazed by the lack of awareness many people have of local government and its importance to their lives.
Trucks could be excluded from Blueskin Rd under a voluntary accord being negotiated between trucking companies, forestry owners, the police and the Chalmers Community Board.
Dunedin members of the Sensible Sentencing Trust will lead a peaceful march to the Dunedin courthouse on Monday, to coincide with the sentencing of the killers of 3-year-old Moko Rangitoheriri.
The annual Octacan mid-winter foodbank appeal for Presbyterian Support Otago is under pressure to be more successful than ever before.
Dunedin Hospital's gastroenterology clinical leader Dr Jason Hill is a happy man.
The travelling is easy in Tasmania, writes Brenda Harwood.
A flock of web-footed bandits has been invading the pitch at Watson Park, Port Chalmers, leaving fowl deposits in their wake.
