Shawn McAvinue

For the first time since he began growing Christmas trees, John Munro sold out this week.

A Dunedin art gallery is raising bus money.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull leads Grant's Braes School pupils on a convoy yesterday after he officially opened a new 125m scooter track at the school.

Neighbours of an empty Mosgiel section are delighted an apartment block not a McDonald's restaurant is proposed for Hartstonge St.

Cash registers are ringing loudly across Otago - with shoppers last week spending at least $3.8 million more than in the corresponding week last year.

Any cruise passengers with norovirus when Dawn Princess docked in Port Chalmers would not have come into contact with the public, a Princess Cruises spokesman said yesterday.

Olveston Historic Home guide Kevin Flaherty, in the Olveston library yesterday, reads a book of letters written by World War 1 soldier Dalbert Hallenstein.

Kavanagh College economics and accounting teacher Jill Armstrong (above) relaxes with her fabric dolls in Dunedin yesterday.

The Regent Theatre has punched above its weight to win the national medium venue of the year award.

Surviving a shark attack inspired a Dunedin woman to become New Zealand's first forensic anthropologist.

Dunedin is celebrating its new cultural status as a Unesco Creative City of Literature. Shawn McAvinue reports on what this could mean for the city.

A fire crew on the ground and a helicopter in the air yesterday dampened six ‘‘hot spots'' after a scrub fire at Woodside, near Outram. 

A mission to drive an electric car the length of New Zealand and back is set to reach the halfway mark today.

"Claus-trophobia" is the fear of Father Christmas, KidsCan Santa Run Dunedin organiser Sarah Redfearn says.

The more than 10,000 tickets sold to Arts Festival Dunedin this year put attendance rates ''on a par'' with past festivals with similar calibre artists, festival director Nicholas McBryde says.

That she was able to adopt a puppy with a highly contagious and lethal disease from the Dunedin City Council has disgusted the pup's new owner and left her with an expensive vet bill.

Internet service stopped for some customers in the South when a underground fibre cable was cut in Rakaia this morning.

The ''fuse has been lit'' to build a $15 million Taieri Aquatic Facility at Memorial Park in Mosgiel, the chairman of the trust behind it says.

Three injured hunters are recovering in Southland Hospital after the plane they were in flipped following an aborted take off in Western Southland this afternoon.