Sick teddy bears get their treatment
Sick teddy bears get their treatment
It was anything but a picnic for dozens of Dunedin teddy bears yesterday.
Nigel Benson
Dunedin ballet dancers shine
Dunedin ballet dancers shine
A Dunedin school pupil is going to be dancing with the stars.
Opening act for Elton
Opening act for Elton
A Hokitika singer-songwriter will open Sir Elton John's concert at Forsyth Barr Stadium in November.
Success for city artists
Success for city artists
Dunedin artists were highly successful in the Otago Art Society's 2011 Edinburgh Premier Art Awards at the Art Station at the weekend.
Cornet player champion of champions
Cornet player champion of champions
Otago Daily Times journalist John Lewis has won New Zealand's top solo brass music prize, claiming the 2011 Festival of Brass champion of champions title in Auckland.
Anthem singers sought
Anthem singers sought
Auditions are being held around New Zealand to find singers to perform national anthems before Rugby World Cup matches.
Regent almost ready to reopen
Regent almost ready to reopen
The Regent Theatre is getting rouged up ready for its re-opening next month after a $6.8 million upgrade.
Grand old engine sees sunlight again
Grand old engine sees sunlight again
Trainspotters made tracks for the Otago Settlers Museum in Dunedin yesterday to see a historic railway engine rolling for the first time in nearly 40 years.
NHNZ not expecting Murdoch fallout
NHNZ not expecting Murdoch fallout
Dunedin television production company NHNZ is not anticipating any fallout in the wake of the News Corporation scandal unfolding in the United Kingdom.
Swann property negotiations continue
Swann property negotiations continue
Negotiations continue in the sale of a million-dollar Dunedin property confiscated from convicted fraudster Michael Swann.
Alert as lpg ship berths with patient
Alert as lpg ship berths with patient
Emergency services took no chances when an lpg container ship berthed in Dunedin with an injured crew member yesterday.
Sharing magic of theatre
Sharing magic of theatre
The latest Fortune Theatre play has taken veteran Dunedin director Hilary Norris full circle.
Locomotive ready to be moved
Locomotive ready to be moved
One of the slowest and most expensive train trips in history starts in Dunedin this week.
Watch out for clever girls on wheels
Watch out for clever girls on wheels
Few sports involve the crowd quite like a roller derby.
Master class takes a dramatic turn
Master class takes a dramatic turn
Auckland playwright Roger Hall shared some of his playwriting secrets with aspiring playwrights and novelists and presented a two-hour talk yesterday, "Fifteen Years to be an Overnight Success", about the beginning of his career.
Stadium concert auditions to begin
Stadium concert auditions to begin
The build-up to the biggest party of the year starts next week.
Children watch their kindy get flattened
Children watch their kindy get flattened
Jonathan Rhodes Kindergarten children put down their sandpit toys yesterday to watch the real thing in action.
Dunedin companies take care of business - for 150 years
Dunedin companies take care of business - for 150 years
Celebrating the combined 150th anniversary of their Dunedin firms in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery yesterday are (from left) John Anderson, Karyn Close and Iain Gallaway, of Gallaway Cook Allan, and BNZ Otago managing partner Clark Taylor.
Steel sings as butchers vie for title
Steel sings as butchers vie for title
Knives and steels sang in Dunedin as seven butchers competing in the Otago-Southland Retail Meat New Zealand regional young butcher of the year final sliced and diced their way through a beef rump, a pork shoulder and a number 20 chicken.
Otago student hopes to put army back on its feet
Otago student hopes to put army back on its feet
A University of Otago student has put the boot into the old adage that an army marches on its stomach.