Rosie Manins

Staying fit and healthy is the motivation behind a Pacific Trust Otago school holiday programme aimed at steering children away from the television and on to the sports court.

Dunedin's unemployed and workers united in their opposition of proposed benefit reforms during a protest through Dunedin streets this afternoon.

Chants of "National Scum!" rang through Dunedin streets as workers and beneficiaries united in protest yesterday against proposed welfare reforms.

Former prime minister Helen Clark will deliver the first in a series of annual lectures when she visits Dunedin next month.

Snow, sunburn and better technology are shaping Chief Inspector Dennis Lock's experience of Dunedin during his three-month secondment from the Adelaide police.

There is a funny side to parking tickets, for enforcers at least.

The Dunedin RSA Welfare Trust has appointed Marie Marshall as its new welfare officer, to assist ex-service personnel and their families.

Two Otago men beheaded by Japanese soldiers during World War 2 are among those being commemorated this month in New Zealand's first official tribute to the work of all coastwatchers.

Taxi drivers are using security camera footage against each other, resulting in at least one Dunedin operator being fined.

A Middlemarch woman's attempt to improve her business by extending a front deck has fallen foul of the New Zealand Transport Agency.

Otago courts are seeing fewer defendants and those prosecuted are more likely to be convicted.

Eight-year-old Blake Rackham had a story to tell yesterday after landing a whopping rainbow trout.

Conflict between road users at city intersections is being reduced through changes implemented by the Dunedin City Council.

Traffic remains restricted to two of the Caversham motorway's four lanes while a second chip seal coat is applied.