Shawn McAvinue

Community generosity has been revealed in the response to the plight of an unwanted blind dog, but all has not gone to plan.

Debris divers and rubbish wranglers are being called on for the coming Macandrew Bay clean-up.

As the former Hoyts' cinema in the Octagon is stripped by contractors, the future tenants have already started asking prospective staff to get in touch.

Visits and issues at most Otago libraries are declining as readers shift from printed to electronic material.

The spike in sales of Otago rugby supporters' apparel is expected to increase before Sunday's Ranfurly Shield defence.

Despite being surrounded by teddy bears, today is no picnic for ANZ North Dunedin branch manager Judy Chiles.

A Dunedin girl is defying doctors' expectations that she would never walk and is training for an endurance running race.

A fire in a commercial wheelie-bin early on Sunday was the third arson in Dunedin at the weekend.

Volunteer Ana Vulinovich (22) among daffodils she sorted into bunches yesterday for Friday's Daffodil Day appeal.

Seaweed experiment in Dunedin may reach a sticky end.

About 100 people wore traditional garments at the University of Otago this week to celebrate International Languages Week.

Kavanagh College pupil Matt Martin (17) awoke from a coma without any memory of the Dunedin rugby game in which he was concussed - or of the November death of his mother.

Pebbles and Jaffas rattling in boxes are now nothing more than a memory. And the machine that once filled the cardboard packets has been consigned to the scrapyard.

The final movie screening at Dunedin's Hoyts cinema tonight is the same movie that screened when the cinema opened 20 years ago.

Proud parents queued in the cold yesterday for ''hot commodity'' tickets to see their children perform in Dunedin.

A Dunedin pupil's science exhibit testing a Leonardo da Vinci theory about trees branched out to beat 321 other budding Otago scientists.

The community will be able to share their ideas on the St Clair sea wall with Dunedin City Council consultants in the next $130,000 stage of the project, infrastructure and networks general manager Tony Avery says.

An Auckland family - two adults and four children - had to wade back in a rising tide while returning from a walk to Taieri Island last night.

Dunedin was the final South Island stop for a First Union national tour to discuss poverty, the living wage and employment law change.