Jono Edwards

Only 10% of the $100,000 set aside by the Dunedin City Council for people and businesses affected by August’s boil-water notice for parts of the city has been approved.

Connected Education Trust members Keir Russell and Phillipa Dick chat shortly before the trust received a $90,000 GigCity Community Grant at an event at Precinct Food last night.

Professional and amateur chefs will unite next week in a fine dining event to keep the chillers running for Dunedin’s only food rescue charity.

As the Otago Peninsula Trust celebrates 50 years this weekend, its founders are already looking to the next half-century.

Scientific breakthroughs are the goal as brain research collaborations are pursued between Dunedin and China.

''We felt like we were in a cloud'', says one of the three women trapped in the cold fog of Mt Cargill for four hours on Monday night.

The triple fatality in Southland on Sunday took the road toll for the Southern region, which includes Otago and Southland, to 27 for the year to date.

Three students were cold but in good spirits after being rescued from ''pretty nasty'' fog on Mt Cargill last night.

South Dunedin's electric postal delivery vehicles have been taken off the road with faults just a few days after they became operational.

Police are seeking information after video game consoles were targeted in a burglaries in North Dunedin at the weekend.

Two young children orphaned in an apparent head-on crash in Southland were in hospital yesterday and being supported by family.

Colleen Symon and her pious pooch Spook absorb an animal-themed sermon at St Paul’s Cathedral for its Blessing of the Animals yesterday.

News Pink will be the latest star to perform in Dunedin had Forsyth Barr Stadium aglow with excitement last night.

Dunedin is at an exciting "tipping-point",  but much more could be done to make it a thriving pedestrian-priority city, Global Designing Cities Initiative director Skye Duncan  says.

American bonsai  expert  Bjorn Bjorholm shapes and snips one of the plants at the National Bonsai Convention at Kaikorai Valley College yesterday.

A Dunedin teenager says Blue Light "opened doors" for his future, after winning an award at one of its life skills camps.