Rebecca Fox

It is a price rise 28 years in the making.

The Otago Regional Council is considering handing back the city's bus system to the Dunedin City Council.

Dunedin police last night arrested a 32-year-old man in relation to the robberies of six city banks in recent months.

Nearly 1000 Otago pupils are learning how to remain physically, mentally, spiritually and socially healthy at Dunedin's annual youth expo, which started yesterday.

Frankie Wells wound an Otago scarf around her neck and declared her wholehearted support for the Awatea St stadium - one of the few voices to do so at yesterday's Otago Regional Council plan hearings.

The Otago Regional Council is seeking costs as a result of the recent Environment Court appeal on the Leith Lindsay flood-protection scheme.

Ten of the 12 people who made submissions on the Orokonui Ecosanctuary's proposed visitor centre opposed the planned project, with one of the submitters describing the proposed building as a ‘‘flamboyant glasshouse''.

She is older than many of the rest-home residents she helps, but age has not stopped 83-year-old Dunedin woman Joyce Myers from working.

About $8000 in government funding will help two Otago organisations highlight climate change issues as part of World Environment Day.

Dry weather has led to concerns Ball Shelter in the Aoraki Mt Cook National Park could fall victim to a shifting moraine wall.

New Zealand reptiles, including Otago Peninsula's jewelled gecko, are being illegally traded in Europe, Wildlife Enforcement Group customs officer Colin Hitchcock, of Auckland, says.

Record fuel prices have forced Air New Zealand's domestic fare prices up for the second time in two months, again by an average 3%.

The last chapter of a story which started in a prisoner of war camp during World War 2 ended yesterday when Karitane man David Ellison handed a diary filled with soldiers' stories of illness and death to its original author's family.

A pest which has the potential to devastate New Zealand's horticulture and vegetable industry has been found in an undeclared mandarin at Dunedin International Airport.

Dunedin businesses are being disadvantaged by increasing incidents of vandalism and it is time something is done, Dunedin finance company chief executive Allan Hewitt says.