Brenda Harwood

Ambitious plans to establish a Dunedin arts hub in the Octagon Athenaeum building have been put on hold for the immediate future, as work continues on the historic building.

For Dunedin man Grahame Fox, and dozens of fellow patients across the southern region, the work of the Dunedin Hospital Dialysis Unit is literally life-saving.

Cycle and pedestrian routes through the southern city are opening up and work on Package 1 of the South Dunedin cycleway-walkway is due to be completed at the end of this month.

There has been a groundswell of community support in Port Chalmers for the lower speed limit in George St to be made permanent.

Life in Dunedin has been synonymous with a life in music for Glennie Jamieson (80), who recently stepped down as a member of City Choir Dunedin after 51 years.

A newly formed trust has big plans for the Mayfair Theatre, in South Dunedin, as the theatre celebrates its centennial year.

New Zealand faces a ''tsunami of knee replacements'' in the coming years, placing even more pressure on health services, a Dunedin academic says.

A Dunedin cyclist and Sawyers Bay resident has highlighted the daily dangers of commuting by bicycle on busy State Highway 88 and has called on truck drivers to take more care.

Expect to see many more young faces on public buses this year, with university and polytechnic students being urged to take part in a new transport scheme.

Danish business student Nick Nissen (23) has travelled halfway around the world to be part of the the Dunedin Fringe Festival organising team.

Searching through hundreds of vinyl LPs and CDs for ''discs to spin'' during today's Regent Theatre Anything But Books Sale has been a trip down memory lane for Darryl Baser.

An unusual and genteel sight will greet cyclists heading along North Rd to the Bike Wise Fun Day at Forrester Park today.

The Bloke's Shed concept has been a great success since the first shed was established at Taieri Aerodrome in 2007.

A temporary speed restriction in Port Chalmers' main street has been a hit with business owners but its impact on motorists is yet to be established - and the question of who will pay for it has arisen.

The methods used by Dunedin teenagers to get to and from school will be the subject of an intensive study across the city's 12 high schools.

Cycle and pedestrian routes through the southern city are opening up, as work progresses on phase one of the South Dunedin cycleway-walkway network.

A South Dunedin woman wants road safety improved after the death of her family's miniature schnauzer in an alleged hit-and-run in Surrey St.