Ellie Constantine

The oldest Abingdon King Dick motorcycle in New Zealand will take part in the oldest veteran car rally in the southern hemisphere today.

The Otago Polytechnic is seeking new premises in Mosgiel for its Community Learning Centre, as part of a strategic partnership with the Dunedin City Council.

Tertiary students appear to have borne the brunt of the economic recession, with increasing debt and money woes and decreasing job opportunities evident in a New Zealand Union of Students Associations (NZUSA) survey.

After his father died in a farm accident last year, Antony Nichol wanted to thank the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter crew for their help and support in the best way he knew how - donating the proceeds from the sale of five lambs to the helicopter rescue trust.

Dunedin will soon take its first steps to becoming a centre of technology excellence with more than 30 people seeking to start upskilling at tertiary institutions next month.

Having a communal lifestyle in which children run free, cockatoos are welcome and rain does not matter, and in which freedom is essential but territory is important, is all part of the New Zealand psyche, University of Otago researchers have found.

Spending time with "clubbies" again was the best part about arriving in Dunedin yesterday for the six surf lifeguards circumnavigating New Zealand, co-leader Ash Matuschka said.

Otago ACC claims cost $26 million in the last financial year, with about a quarter of the total coming from skiing and snowboarding.

Connecting consumers and producers in the modern retail environment is not always easy.

As more retailers targeting the plus-size fashion market open their doors in Dunedin, women have even more reason to celebrate their curves with stylish clothes, as Ellie Constantine discovers.

Dunedin's charitable stores have increasingly become dumping grounds for unwanted, unsaleable goods, and charges to legally dump junk are eating into their profits.

As Canterbury children and their families struggled to cope in the aftermath of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck on September 4 last year, children's author Diana Noonan set out to help.

After watching items such as a wardrobe and painting float down the flooded Brisbane River on Wednesday night, Nicola Ferguson was happy to fly into Dunedin yesterday.

Four years into a 20-year plan to conserve and protect their environment for the benefit of native insects, Gordon and Janine Thompson have received a certification from the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust.