A police highway patrol education initiative is targeting motorists who travel with bicycles and cycling equipment strapped to the back of vehicles, obscuring registration number plates and tail-lights.
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Invercargill police are investigating the destruction of a James Hargest College classroom block by fire, which is being treated as suspicious.
A true southern man, Pete Moffat does not just drink Speight's, he compiles a history of the Dunedin brewery by collecting anything and everything associated with it.
Dunedin couple Kate Lilley and Tony Garchow named their daughter Charlotte, thinking it was relatively unusual, and were surprised to learn this week it was the most popular girl's name for Otago in 2012.
Dunedin Magician Jonathan Usher is a kid at heart and has a collection to prove it.
Peter Marsh cannot explain his desire to collect, but says it is something that will never go away.
Up to $125,000 in prize money is attracting unprecedented competition for equestrian event Ride the Rhythm, to be held at the Forsyth Barr Stadium on February 1, organiser Kevin Hansen says.
A KiwiRail worker uses a torch to assess the derailed wagons of a freight train on the main line beside State Highway 1 at Waitati about 10.30pm yesterday. It was the second derailment near Dunedin within a 24-hour period, following an incident at Port Chalmers on Thursday night.
It was ''love at first sight'' for Dutch couple Frans and Tessa Visser, who sailed into Dunedin yesterday aboard their very own love boat, Costa neoRomantica.
A Dunedin couple have returned to the city after a tramping ordeal on Mitre Peak.
'Treasure hunting at the ''Sally Annies'' is Lyndall Frost's favourite pastime.
Collecting is a hobby shared by people of every age, race, religion, nationality and financial standing. In the first of a series of articles, Rosie Manins talks to University of Otago Special Collections librarian Donald Kerr about the public good of collecting and how it has influenced his own professional and personal life.
Fancy a New Year's Eve barn dance, Cajun jitterbug lessons or perhaps a turn at Cape Breton fiddling?
Dunedin residents, like most New Zealanders, regard Australia as the most appealing overseas holiday destination, recently collected data shows. Australia appealed to 80% of Dunedin respondents to the Southern Cross Travel Insurance survey. Out transtasman neighbour also received the highest overall appeal ranking (77%) of any holiday destination by the more than 2000 New Zealanders surveyed.
While his family unwrapped Christmas presents in Dunedin yesterday, Lance-corporal Kane Ritchie was awaiting orders at the New Zealand Defence Force army base in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province.
ITt was a stunner! Christmas Day brought sunshine to everyone in Otago yesterday, with temperatures averaging 28degC across the region.
Every summer, thousands of Kiwis dust off their tents, fill the car with camping gear and seek out the perfect holiday location. For the Greaves family, of Christchurch, and their friends, Moeraki is the ideal spot. They risked exposing their secret to tell Rosie Manins why.
More than just a place of work, Hillside has been a social, cultural and communal institution for its thousands of staff and their families during its 130 years.
Down but not out, redundant Hillside workers are vowing to fight on amid hope the South Dunedin manufacturing facility will be resurrected under a new government.
