A pig dog called Rat
A pig dog called Rat
A pig dog called Rat is missing most of her teeth, an eye and a toe, but is the complete world to a South Dunedin woman with arthritis.
Shawn McAvinue
Fine food goes down a treat
Fine food goes down a treat
Spice and sunshine were served at a refined Dunedin International Food Festival on Saturday.
Trike proves a real crowd pleaser
Trike proves a real crowd pleaser
Dunedin mechanic Paul Barron's custom-built V8 trike turned heads at Wings and Wheels at Taieri Airfield on Saturday.
Hobbit hole just right fit
Hobbit hole just right fit
Tours of a small Dunedin ''hobbit hole'' are growing in popularity.
Electricity user says offers rip-off, bribe
Electricity user says offers rip-off, bribe
Mercury Energy is ''ripping off'' customers and trying to ''bribe'' back disgruntled customers, a Dunedin woman says.
Piecing together puzzles part of sale attraction
Piecing together puzzles part of sale attraction
Millions of jigsaw puzzle pieces were on sale at The Regent Theatre's Anything But Books Sale in Dunedin yesterday.
'You're in Six60's world'
'You're in Six60's world'
Six60 singer Matiu Walters performs to about 6500 people at an O-Week gig at Forsyth Barr Stadium last night.
Library's booksale biggest yet
Library's booksale biggest yet
Whoever said ''sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'' has not shifted stock for the Dunedin Public Libraries' annual book sale.
'Traumatised' kittens recovering
'Traumatised' kittens recovering
A Mosgiel vet has found homes for four of the five ''traumatised'' kittens dumped in North Dunedin.
Time to replant
Time to replant
Saddle Hill Community Board member Leanne Stenhouse surveys a burnt area near the Kaikorai Estuary walkway, bordering the Dunedin Pistol Club, which is to be replanted in natives. The area was...
School costs grant applications close next week
School costs grant applications close next week
The Government has already paid nearly $3 million for the education costs of estranged children, and applications for future payments close next week.
Govt to test Wof scheme on state houses
Govt to test Wof scheme on state houses
A warrant of Fitness scheme will be trialled on state homes in Otago and Southland, Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith announced yesterday.
Blow on the pie! Hot food injuries on the rise
Blow on the pie! Hot food injuries on the rise
The police warning to ''always blow on the pie'' is advice more Otago residents should heed, as hot food injury rates begin to boil over.
Some sobering messages
Some sobering messages
Otago Polytechnic students were asked to save the world - and Invermay - at a brunch welcoming them to their study in Dunedin yesterday.
Southerners slow to heed energy advice
Southerners slow to heed energy advice
Fewer Otago and Southland residents have connected with the Government's multimillion-dollar energy efficiency campaign than in the rest of New Zealand.
Festival full of good honest fun
Festival full of good honest fun
The Festival of the Plain is set to serve up the entertainment during the next few weeks.
Freedom campers flocking to reserves
Freedom campers flocking to reserves
A trial of a new freedom camping policy at three sites around Dunedin, including the Ocean View Recreation Reserve, is also attracting tenters at the latter.
NZ Oil and Gas defends fossil fuel roadshow
NZ Oil and Gas defends fossil fuel roadshow
The fossil fuel roadshow that started its tour of South Taranaki schools yesterday could come to Otago and was not ''propaganda'' but a way to engage with the community, New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) spokesman John Pagani says.
'No better place to be a student in NZ'
'No better place to be a student in NZ'
A couple of University of Otago graduates recall Dunedin's campus life in the 1990s as times of slavery and flea pits - a unique experience today's campus lacks. But they tell Shawn McAvinue why they would recommend the campus.
Echoes of the past in Waipori to Nelson journey
Echoes of the past in Waipori to Nelson journey
Ashley Blair is celebrating the birthday of his 100-year-old motorcycle by re-creating the journey his grandfather made a century ago.