They are known as the New Zealand Christmas tree, or antipodean holly, and they are blooming all over Dunedin. Pohutukawa are exploding into colour around the city in the blaze of hot weather.
The Otago Daily Times had heard the fishing was good on Otago Harbour this week. But, being dedicated journalists, we decided not to take anybody else's word for it.
One person is dead and another critically injured after a head-on crash on State Highway 6, near Haast, on the West Coast yesterday.
Not all Dunedin residents have been enjoying the hot, sunny Christmas weather.
Bargain-hunters took advantage of a sunny Dunedin day yesterday to tackle the traditional Boxing Day sales.
The late New Zealand Poet Laureate Hone Tuwhare's Kaka Point crib will be sold, after his family yesterday conceded defeat in its bid to establish a writer's residency at his former home.
Equus africanus asinus fanciers Michael and Teresa Bradfield could talk the hind legs off a donkey about their, er ... donkeys.
The bad boys of New Zealand art are celebrated in a confrontational new Dunedin Public Art Gallery exhibition.
The Otago film industry is hoping to reel in more international productions after New Zealand was this week named one of the top 10 filming locations in the world.
A multimillion-dollar Dunedin sports excellence academy could be a factory for future world champions.
A collection of rare paintings from the 1800s, inspired by the books of Charles Dickens, has been discovered in Dunedin.
If only you could slip over on ice and never never land.
A 150-year-long exposure of Otago Daily Times photographs has kept the Otago Museum busy with a stready stream of visitors.
A postal delivery which took more than 40 years was given a stamp of approval in Dunedin yesterday.
One of Dunedin's best-known tourist attractions has been renamed Rabbit Castle.
A Dunedin teenager is about to take a step he hopes will lead to a career in the world of professional dance.
Port Chalmers Kindergarten pupils went from old school to new school yesterday. The township's new kindergarten officially welcomed its young charges for the first time.
A piece of Larnach Castle history is believed to have been uncovered in the Maniototo.
The Globe Theatre production Waiting for Godot took major honours at the 2011 Dunedin Theatre Awards at the Playhouse Theatre last night.
Residents of Otago Harbour suburbs believe illumination plans for the State Highway 88 cycleway, between Maia and Port Chalmers, will detract from harbour views.
