David Loughrey recently did something he'd never done, despite a severe reluctance to exit his comfort zone. He represented the city's socially awkward and fearful citizens on a trip to the Dunedin Casino, and he learnt a sort of lesson.
Wide-ranging changes expected to provide a simpler, more effective and technologically advanced bus service in Dunedin will be introduced in the next 15 months.
A couple whose home came within metres of being burned by a large fire that swept across hills near Outram say considering the fire risks when they built on the property may have saved their house.
Anglican deans (from left) the Very Revs Digby Wilkinson (Wellington), Michael Godfrey (Napier), Peter Rickman (Hamilton), Dr Trevor James (Dunedin), the Ven Nick Mountfort (Christchurch) and the Very Revs Jo Kelly-Moore (Auckland) and Nick Kirk (Nelson) congregate in St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, yesterday.
A big Dunedin online effort has won the Brighton Surf Life Saving Club a $25,000 inflatable rescue boat (IRB) package.
This week is Dunedin Pride week, an annual event run by the queer community to raise the visibility and understanding of sexuality and gender diversity. One of the organisers is the new Otago University Students Association queer support co-ordinator. Hahna Briggs talks about coming out in a city where some residents are a long way short of accepting.
The release this week of a strategy to ensure Dunedin is an ''inclusive and affirming'' city that supports its gay community could attract more people to the city, its backers say.
Being multiple birth aware can mean different things to different people.
A frantic last-minute surge of social media posts may have got Dunedin over the line in the latest stage of the Gigatown competition.
It might have just been a small broken window and a huge noise, but an echo of the horrors of war sounded in Dunedin yesterday.
Dunedin is ''a bit different'' to the Gold Coast.
The air at Logan Park was thick with blue, yellow, green, purple and pink dye yesterday, as about 300 people took on some colourful exercise at Sport Otago's first Dunedin Rainbow Run.
The South Island Targa Rally could be facing a bill of up to $10,000, after damage to an Otago Peninsula road and barrier fence.
He rides his bicycle to work to study the theories behind some of humanity's more advanced science. Dr Robert Thompson is the affable American who may be one of few who can explain the theory behind invisibility and cloaking devices. He is also an outspoken advocate of cycleways in Dunedin. He spent some time trying to explain all that to David Loughrey.
A celebration of young Maori excellence in Otago secondary schools sparked songs and haka last night.
Dunedin had a flood of visitors yesterday, thanks to the unexpected and longer-than-usual visit of a cruise ship.
A group of Portobello Rd, Dunedin, businesses has called for a rethink of a cycleway on a road they say should be for industry.
Dunedin is punching above its weight in attracting film-makers, and more movies may be on the way.
A certain flouncy flower was in bloom in Dunedin this week, and enthusiasts gathered to celebrate its sensuous delights. David Loughrey had been dimly aware of a blur of colour of late. He meditated on the whys and wherefores of the rhododendron, and found himself transported to the land of the Buddha.
The visitors' marquee was going up at Port Chalmers yesterday, and all eyes will be on the new Octagon shuttle parking bay as the Sea Princess makes its second attempt at being the first cruise ship of the season.
