Twelve overseas journalists will descend on Dunedin today to sample some of the city's tourism attractions and the visit is expected to generate tens of thousands of dollars in publicity for the region.
With competitors urged by the MC to "get sick like swine flu", it was clear this was not your average Saturday sporting event.
Prayers for the unemployed, struggling businesses and charitable organisations echoed around St Paul's Cathedral yesterday as part of a new weekly service aimed at helping people through the recession.
Wanting to run her first marathon "somewhere off the wall", Dot Mowat decided to run atop one instead.
A Dunedin invention is credited with saving the life of a trainee pilot after he got lost - twice - on a solo flight to Queenstown.
Boy racers flouting the law risk getting their cars crushed under tough new legislation introduced to Parliament yesterday.
State house tenants who are on on high enough incomes will be able to buy their homes as part of a Housing New Zealand shake-up.
The trend for Dunedin to be treated as a poor relation in terms of air travel looks set to continue as a network review is conducted by Air New Zealand.
A plant capable of processing $10 million of live rock lobster for export to Asia this season has opened in Sawyers Bay, Dunedin.
A cyber attack by Chinese computer hackers on Environment Southland's flood-warning system was thwarted last week, it has been revealed.
No ifs, no butts. That's the message from Keep New Zealand Beautiful, which will launch a campaign in Dunedin today aimed at removing cigarette butts from inner city streets.
They came, they saw, they rocked - and now pint-sized rockers, Rapture, Kalala, Filo, Kane and Corey plan to take their music to a bigger stage.
Submissions against a proposed mataitai for Otago Harbour are unlikely to alter the move to protect the area, a runanga spokesman says.
The elderly woman terrorised in a camper van by a group of youths at Warrington at the weekend has spoken of her ordeal, including the fear her attackers would kill her 18-year-old cat.
A former University of Otago student has received a police bravery commendation for fighting off three men during a vicious home invasion in London.
Two Government grants will help the Orokonui Ecosanctuary prepare for the reintroduction of kiwi, takahe and South Island robin next year.
Two Dunedin recreational fishermen had a lucky escape after their boat overturned at Taieri Mouth yesterday.
The country's biggest landlord is after one- and two-bedroom properties in Dunedin.
Stephen Burgess has retired this week after more than 40 years of work at Port Chalmers.
Cadbury has confirmed more jobs will be cut at its Dunedin plant.
