Few people can remember what they got up to while they were still wearing nappies - but Terry Middleditch can.
Christmas joy is back on track and will be rolled out as initially planned for two young boys, after a present - a toy trolley - was stolen, but subsequently returned after a police investigation.
The Commerce Commission has ordered the operators of the Night'n Day shop in the Octagon to remove, or cover, alcohol advertisements on the windows until the shop has a liquor licence.
Tough times may await University of Otago College of Education graduates as teachers surplus to requirements in Christchurch schools flood the job market.
Half of the hydrology field officers at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) are to be "disestablished" in the Southern region and three people will lose their jobs as part of a nationwide review of atmospheric science and support staff roles.
With no idea where her next stop will be, wandering wherever her heart takes her, Pauline Symaniak has covered more than 17,000km from her home in Portobello, Edinburgh, to Portobello, Dunedin.
Festive spirit is strong in the southern region in the build-up to Christmas Day, with electronic transactions in the Otago region increasing by 5.4%, and 6.3% in Southland during the first 20 days of December this year, compared with 2010.
Leyland Leopard 194 will cruise the streets of Dunedin once again this Christmas.
Clarke Johnstone has the jump on most of the world's horse riders, now that he is the reigning Federation Equestre Internationale Eventing World Cup champion.
The family of a Green Island woman is distraught after her gravesite was damaged at the weekend, allegedly by a Dunedin City Council cemetery caretaker.
The Ministry of Education is considering appointing a commissioner to govern Rotary Park School, in the wake of the decimation of the school's board of trustees.
Winning a national German film-making competition when you are only 14 is good. But beating university film-making students can only be described as "wunderbar".
Another year is done and dusted and the holiday rush begins for Flag Swamp School pupils (from left) Nik Turner (9), Nickalous Paul (5), Freedom Thomas-Martin (8), school visitor Alice Smith (3), Melissa Laxon (10), Lucy Jackson (5), Kylie Weir (7), Sheree Thomas-Martin (7), Machela Paul (6), school visitor Chloe Greer (11), Daymon Smillie (11), Preschool Club member Baillie Laxon (4), Caitlin Edge (10), Gina Tutty (11), Kelly-Ann Weir (11, obscured) and Byron Greer (9). Waving goodbye are principal Murray Oats and his wife, Wendy.
Construction of a $25 million junction on State Highway 1 at Lookout Point could begin as early as July next year, the New Zealand Transport Agency said.
Dunedin police are disappointed after issuing 80 infringement notices in seven hours yesterday during a campaign to cut speed in the city's residential areas.
An outbreak of E-coli in the water supply at the Deep Cove Outdoor Education Trust's school hostel has prompted the trust to employ sanitation experts and introduce boil-water notices.
As the bell tolled at 3pm, ending the day's lessons at Forbury School for the last time, there was a strange air of jubilation mixed with despair.
Rotary Park School has been described as a "sinking ship", and all but one of its six board of trustees members have resigned over growing concerns about the return of the school's principal, Carmel Casey.
Increasing rolls, space constraints and the lure of possible cost reductions have prompted the Catholic Education Office to investigate moving its St Mary's School in Mosgiel to a new site.
You can almost hear city retailers singing Gaudeamus igitur ("Let us rejoice").