Margot Taylor

Mastering the skill of making the perfect coffee has become a priority for a group of Dunedin  early school leavers.

A Jewelled gecko, smuggled from his home on Otago Peninsula, taken to Germany and returned to Dunedin, is set to be named.

Wild Dunedin nature festival organisers plan to make the event ''New Zealand's nature festival'' following a dramatic attendance increase this year.

A St Clair shop owner says she has seen someone die in a traffic accident and fears she may see another fatal crash outside her shop.

A disorientated spotted shag joined morning commuters in Dunedin yesterday after being blown off course.

Livestock of all varieties mingled with one another at the annual Strath Taieri A&P Show on Saturday.

Rodeo clown Richard Robinson swapped his jovial antics for a slightly more sombre approach at the annual Waikouaiti rodeo on the weekend.

Funding for a Dunedin penguin hospital which has saved 6%  of New Zealand’s yellow-eyed penguin population is set to run out this month.

After a 500-year absence, a moa has returned to Orokonui Valley, near Dunedin.

The future of the Dominican Priory, one of Dunedin’s most historically important and at-risk buildings, has been secured after a $95,000 grant.

Five hundred houses near Port Chalmers were without internet and mobile phone access for almost 24 hours following a Chorus fibre cut.

A Dunedin man has been arrested in relation to the killing of a female sea lion pup.

A Central Otago motorcyclist was killed after his motorcycle and a truck collided near Alexandra yesterday.

A group of Waitati residents hope a boardwalk on Department of Conservation scenic reserve land will coax young people away from computers and into nature.

The Otago Regional Council says its E. coli standards for the region’s waters are more stringent than those proposed by the Government.

Otago's lakes and rivers are healthier than those of neighbouring Southland waters, new Ministry for the Environment data has revealed.

A Dunedin man is set to show off the city he loves on a $130,000 five-seater trike.

A "crisis of faith" and a broke diocese are casting  a shadow on Anglican parishes in Dunedin, including St Paul’s Cathedral.