Two Dunedin men managed to find one of the few cold, wet spots left in Central Otago, prompting a police search and rescue call-out and a warning about preparing for four-wheel-drive journeys.
Repairing slip near Broad Bay that has inconvenienced motorists since 2013 is about to start, and work on widening Portobello Rd and renewing the sea wall close to Otakou is under way.
Work will begin today to prepare an Anzac Ave intersection for the commissioning of a set of traffic lights that have been waiting for a green signal for the last three years.
Asking people what they would take to a desert island is sooo last year, and frankly rather dull. So this holiday season, the Summer Times has upped the ante. We have kept the desert island, but made the whole shebang super-difficult, by painting a carefully crafted scenario commensurate to the skills of the professionals and leaders to whom we put the question. How will they respond? Will they be able to stand the pressure of ... David Loughrey's A Desert Island Conundrum?
Asking people what they would take to a desert island is sooo last year and, frankly, rather dull. So this holiday season, the Summer Times has upped the ante.
A fire that ripped through a Dunedin house last night is being treated as suspicious.
Asking people what they would take to a desert island is sooo last year, and frankly rather dull. So this holiday season, the Summer Times has upped the ante. We have kept the desert island, but made the whole shebang super-difficult, by painting a carefully crafted scenario commensurate to the skills of the professionals and leaders to whom we put the question. How will they respond? Will they be able to stand the pressure of ... David Loughrey's `A Desert Island Conundrum'?
Asking people what they would take to a desert island is sooo last year, and frankly rather dull. So this holiday season, Summer Times has upped the ante.
A cat suffered up to two days' agony after her leg was crushed and broken in a prohibited gin trap in Dunedin, and her owners want to make sure other cats do not end up in the same situation.
The heady allure of the London art scene has drawn two models away from the fashion world, and in a new direction.
In Clydebank, near Glasgow, Scotland, it got as warm as 4degC yesterday, and the temperature is expected to drop to a high of just 3degC today.
Close to 500 people, from those struggling with poverty or loneliness to cruise ship passengers in a city mostly closed, packed the Dunedin Town Hall yesterday for what was the biggest community Christmas Day dinner on record.
A former chief executive of Silver Fern Farms, Otago Rugby Union deputy chairman Keith Cooper, is a new director on the board of the Dunedin City Council's group of companies.
A little-known Pixie Town display has emerged on the Taieri, restored by a retired Woodside resident fascinated by the historic children's attraction.
A Dunedin intersection which the owner of a nearby business says is unsafe is about get some attention.
The Chilean puya plant in the geographic collection at the Dunedin Botanic Garden has grown an enormous flower spike.
For most of us, a trip to Pixie Town is a happy Christmas-time highlight. Not so for David Loughrey, who says the ''remorseless, jerking hysteria of the dreadful sharp-eared Christmas gang'' is settled deep within his subconscious. He braved near certain psychological damage to relive the traumas of his youth.
A secret force of Christmas bus stop decorators is on the loose in Green Island, and challenging others to do the same in other suburbs.
The court process over quarrying on Saddle Hill could be moving into another complex and lengthy phase, despite a Dunedin City Council decision not to appeal a recent High Court judgement confirming the quarry owner has consent for its activities.
Dunedin Sound music is about to make the leap from the garage to the orchestral stage.
