Rosie Manins

Otago organisations have received $246,610 to commemorate the centenary of World War 1.

Dunedin police are praising the behaviour of a record 10,000 crowd at the Wingatui racecourse for the Melbourne Cup Day yesterday.

Millions of dollars will be injected into Dunedin next month when the city hosts 1200 international delegates of a marine wildlife conference, organisers say.

A St John officer speaks to a driver after firefighters forced open the driver's door to get him out of the damaged vehicle, which was involved in a collision in central Dunedin yesterday morning.

A 10-home subdivision at Bull Creek, on the South Otago coast, will benefit the small settlement, hopeful developers say.

A sordid and disturbingly recent part of New Zealand history is revealed in Surviving Centrepoint.

Record sales for the Mainland Air Melbourne Cup Day at the Wingatui racecourse are pleasing organisers, who expect about 8000 people to attend.

Assaults on staff at the Otago Corrections Facility are down 35% and the facility ''rates pretty highly'' compared with other New Zealand prisons, Labour corrections spokeswoman Jacinda Ardern says.

Otago Polytechnic is about to launch a world-leading educational resource with the potential to help millions of people in developing nations.

Dishonesty offences continue to be a problem in Dunedin, police say.

Plants, preserves and provisions satisfied visitors to the Lady Thorn Dell at Port Chalmers yesterday.

The Dunedin Sound would not be what it is without Lou Reed, those involved in the musical era say.

Despite a few minor incidents Otago police are generally happy with motorists' conduct throughout the region over the long weekend.

Scots stubbornness helped bring descendants of the MacDonell clan together for a reunion in Dunedin at the weekend.

New information about an attack on a woman on a south Dunedin street is being investigated.

The calibre and character of Brighton Surf Life Saving Club members was celebrated by those past and present during the club's 75th anniversary celebrations held in Dunedin over the weekend.

The chance to feed lambs and ride horses gave Outram School pupils a break from arithmetic yesterday as children and their parents enjoyed the school's pet day at the Outram rodeo grounds.