"When you play on your own, you can stop and do whatever you want. But when you do that here, everyone just gives you a dirty look."
Peter Anderson may have been ineligible to become a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in his youth, but it hasn't stalled his ambitions of flying warplanes.
The "nebulous" state of a crossing in Wakari, Dunedin, has left staff at St Mary's School concerned for the safety of pupils and parishioners.
Te Anau police have named the lone Australian tramper believed to have fallen to his death while walking in Fiordland National Park.
They are designed to generate electricity, but for the moment the turbine blades for the Mahinerangi wind farm in Dunedin are generating curiosity.
Real pigs don't fly. They ride on Harley-Davidsons.
Segways have been deemed illegal to use in a public place, but that has not deterred Otago businesses from still using them and has stimulated a call for the Government to reclassify the non-polluting vehicles.
Organisers of a music teachers' conference being held in Dunedin this week had to make last-minute revisions to the programme after the two keynote speakers were unable to attend.
Despite initiatives aimed at placing young people in employment, youths still account for more than a third of those receiving the unemployment benefit in the southern region, Ministry of Social Development figures show.
Tauranga kayaker Tim Taylor has been flooded with support from Otago residents in the wake of a theft which has left him without important navigation equipment and some underwear.
A simple footpath upgrade outside the St John ambulance facility in Balclutha has led to concerns about its safety from staff.
Government funding cuts have prompted the Dunedin Kindergarten Association to open during the school holidays.
He's not exactly up the creek without a paddle, but a Tauranga kayaker is close to it after thieves stole equipment important to his solo voyage around New Zealand.
The University of Otago Hands-on Science School for secondary pupils has attracted the largest number of Maori pupils in the school's 22-year history.
The sea lion pup left by its mother on Waldronville beach last week has died.
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says public safety is paramount and it is "not unlikely" the Dunedin City Council will look at a change of policy to make sure the city's historic buildings are structurally sound.
McDonald's has not given up on establishing a restaurant in Mosgiel.
The number of schools in Otago requiring Ministry of Education intervention has more than doubled in the past year.
A little blue penguin, which has made its home near a pontoon in Dunedin's Steamer Basin, seems to be making its own rules to adapt to its urban environment.
Imagine a world where you can control a machine to make a cup of coffee and a piece of nicely buttered toast with strawberry jam on it, just by thinking about it.