Nigel Benson

The sterling silver pocket watch was presented by parliamentarian and businessman William Larnach to stonemason Robert Landreth for his work at what is now known as Larnach Castle.

The first thing actor Greer Morris-Clarke did when she got back to Dunedin this week was get a Jimmy's pie - and sunburn.

An electricity substation in Ward St, Dunedin, has been preserved as an example of art deco industrial architecture.

The inaugural Dunedin Theatre Awards have drawn brickbats from local theatre enthusiasts, amid claims of favouritism.

Outgoing Blue Oyster Project Art Space director Jaenine Parkinson is passionate about Dunedin's only non-commercial art gallery.

Dunedin music just got retro.

Santa's little helpers were out in Dunedin yesterday, and they were wearing scout uniforms.

A trimaran at Otago Yacht Club has become a floating nursery for a colony of red-billed gulls.

They have very different skills, but a common goal.

A new director and chairman have been appointed to the Otago Festival of the Arts.

A good deed turned into a bad deal for a Dunedin man.

The Dunedin Fringe Festival is looking for weird and wacky ideas for next year's festival.

The future of Otago's only professional arts organisations, the Fortune Theatre and Southern Sinfonia, is on a knife edge after Creative New Zealand deferred their applications yesterday to be included in its new arts leadership programme.

Last drinks will be called at a Dunedin institution this weekend.

Two expatriate Dunedin people from opposite ends of the globe who won trips home in a Christmas promotion had one more surprise in store - They discovered their family homes were just one street apart, in Tainui.

She is only 16 and she has the world at her feet.

Exchange businesses have accused the Dunedin City Council of being a Christmas grinch.