Police were kept busy in Dunedin on Saturday night with several incidents involving intoxicated youths. In one incident a ''heavily intoxicated'' 20-year-old broke into a randomly chosen flat...
First home buyers in some parts of Otago could require an $80,000 deposit if the Reserve Bank goes through with its proposed restrictions on home loans.
It wasn't Donaldson's Dairy, but fans of all ages gathered at the Dunedin Public Library yesterday to celebrate Hairy Maclary's 30th birthday.
An Otago Peninsula early childhood learning centre has closed because of financial difficulties and its owner blames a Government initiative offering free daycare.
Southern men are following the nationwide trend in hair removal, according to an Auckland-based survey.
Apart from their fame, what do Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne have in common?
The six students who took on the challenge of cleaning up Dunedin's worst flat believe Dunedin landlords are exploiting students by charging too much for very little.
With an abundance of flats in Dunedin, students' expectations are higher, real estate agents say.
If a skateboard is your form of transport, Dunedin's hills make for a painful ride to work or study, so why not drive one instead?
Dunedin dog owners need to take responsibility and neuter their dogs, Dog Rescue Dunedin says as the city's pet rescue organisations are inundated with rejected dogs this winter.
Dunedin's St John has more volunteers than it needs - a far cry from the situation facing St John's regional branches.
What a difference four years can make.
Little more than a year ago, Aaron Smith was making his debut for the All Blacks against Ireland and he said that was a breeze compared with his latest challenge.
Speight's Brewery Dunedin is officially more environmentally friendly, thanks to its $29 million expansion project which includes the removal of four coal boilers.
Team New Zealand arrived in San Francisco this week and Otago residents were the first in New Zealand to write supportive messages this week for the team's bid in the Louis Vuitton and America's Cup races that lay ahead.
Returning from World War 2, Jack Bremner missed his wife Helen's 21st birthday because he was out with his army buddies, but after 70 years of marriage she has managed to reel in her soldier.
Brodie O'Rourke (25), the Queenstown man sentenced to three years and three months' prison last year for the violent kidnapping of Jason Maynard on the Crown Range Rd, near Arrowtown, in 2011, has been denied parole.
The effects of last week's wild weather will be felt for some time as Dunedin City Council contractors undertake damage control around the city.
Passengers were left stranded in Dunedin yesterday after 11 flights were cancelled because of poor conditions at Wellington and Christchurch airports.
Flooding has left a Henley couple contemplating a future elsewhere after their home, backyard and pets were sorely tested in the past week.
