Annual drowning toll trebles in Otago
Annual drowning toll trebles in Otago
Otago's annual drowning toll tripled to six in 2013.
Rosie Manins
Training providers given funding for six months
Training providers given funding for six months
Otago providers of Government-funded training are relieved to be included in a new model, after fearing the loss of contracts to large city-based organisations.
No need to dig if the soil is rich
No need to dig if the soil is rich
Growing vegetables or fruit in your own backyard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Timing key to growing own produce
Timing key to growing own produce
Growing vegetables or fruit in your own backyard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Feather in cap for Hoiho Patrol
Feather in cap for Hoiho Patrol
Could Balclutha be the home of competitive camping?
Preparing prisoners for a life beyond crime
Preparing prisoners for a life beyond crime
From the moment prisoners enter jail, they begin to be prepared for release.
Raised beds give bigger, tastier crop
Raised beds give bigger, tastier crop
Growing vegetables or fruit in your own backyard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Eating what you grow an attraction
Eating what you grow an attraction
Growing vegetables or fruit in your backyard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Life long passion for horticulture
Life long passion for horticulture
Growing vegetables or fruit in your own backyard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Attention to soil brings rich rewards
Attention to soil brings rich rewards
Growing vegetables or fruit in your own back yard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Becoming inspector is ambition realised
Becoming inspector is ambition realised
A new breed of young inspectors is challenging traditional notions in the Southern police district. Rosie Manins talks to Inspector Mel Aitken about her swift rise through the ranks.
Compost is the key to success
Compost is the key to success
Growing vegetables or fruit in your own backyard has made a comeback. Rosie Manins learns how it's done.
Driver safe after crash into ditch
Driver safe after crash into ditch
A single vehicle crash on Dunedin's northern motorway yesterday morning is being investigated by police.
Drunken threats spur AOS call-out
Drunken threats spur AOS call-out
Drunken threats by a 24-year-old Mataura man towards a young woman sparked an armed offenders squad call-out early yesterday.
Jewellery range crafted to the Boh ideal
Jewellery range crafted to the Boh ideal
Boh Runga spots a woman wearing her earrings in an Ashburton cafe. Excited but a little shy, she resists the urge to approach the woman and remark on her choice of jewellery. Later, in Dunedin, she talks to Rosie Manins about her passion for creating beautiful things and why she should have said something.
Holiday it may be, but taxi drivers busy
Holiday it may be, but taxi drivers busy
Christmas Day is like any other at work, only busier, for many taxi drivers.
Southern police encourage drivers to take care on roads
Southern police encourage drivers to take care on roads
As thousands of people travel to holiday destinations today, police urge road users to be careful.
Gifts that made Christmas 'brighter'
Gifts that made Christmas 'brighter'
Thousands of donated presents made Christmas special for many Otago families struggling this holiday season.
Otago Heritage Bus Society counts its takings
Otago Heritage Bus Society counts its takings
Gold coin donations for a novel Christmas bus service will help restoration projects by the Otago Heritage Bus Society. The society operated heritage buses on two routes through Dunedin yesterday when all other public bus services were suspended for Christmas.
Bus passengers were encouraged to bring their pet dogs along for the ride and give a donation to the society as their fare.
Spreading the festive spirit
Spreading the festive spirit
Waikouaiti Coast Community Board deputy chairman Alasdair Morrison (right) and his wife Patricia lead a round of Christmas carols inside the Dunedin Hospital on Christmas Eve.