Shawn McAvinue

A Waikouaiti genealogist has spent many Sundays photographing graves and plaques of servicemen and women in Otago cemeteries to help family historians fill gaps.

Voice coach Lisa Tui Jonathan helps people with Parkinson's rediscover their voices at a seminar in Dunedin yesterday.

Messages of support for Department of Conservation staff covered the doors of the Dunedin office yesterday in an appeal to the Government to reconsider cutting jobs.

The Dunedin City Council has agreed to let bars to stay open for the first hour of Anzac Day so Aerosmith fans can have a ''nightcap'' after a ''hard day'' of rock'n'roll.

Waihola resident Betty Bungard (78) has ''learnt a lot'' since joining the women's Institute as an 18-year-old.

A Dunedin hunter carried out 47kg of antlers and head skin from an ''angry'' wapiti he stalked on a hunting expedition in Fiordland. Trevor Bentley (33) said the weather on the 10-day expedition was a mix of snow, gale-force winds and torrential rain.

Bayfield High School pupils have performed at the Dunedin Chinese Garden to prepare for a trip to China.

Stopping several hundred seagulls fouling the Dunedin water supply is proving difficult, the Dunedin City Council says.

Illegally dumped rubbish on a roadside was cleaned up after a Dunedin tenant left his contact details inside a rubbish bag.

A 66-year-old man died when a large tree stump rolled on him near Dunedin yesterday.

A 67-year-old Dunedin woman says she is to be evicted from her council flat for feeding ducks.

Another woman had her handbag ''swiped'' while visiting a Dunedin cemetery yesterday.

The design of the statue of the Dunedin-born pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe has been unveiled in England.

Dunedin drop-off points for the TV TakeBack programme have been inundated with unwanted televisions.

Song and prayer followed the unveiling of a foundation stone for a new Dunedin church yesterday.

A sculpting symposium started taking shape at Orokonui Ecosanctuary in Dunedin yesterday.

Dropping unwanted televisions into a Dunedin disability enterprise from tomorrow will provide more work for disabled residents, Cargill Enterprises general manager Derek King says .

The 67-year-old Dunedin woman says her eviction notice for feeding ducks outside her council flat has been ''squashed'' but Dunedin City Council staff say it still stands.