Rosie Manins

Lawrence residents are dumbfounded and disappointed their only bank is closing.

Mosgiel teenager Jamie Jury is expected to be roused from an induced coma this weekend and transferred out of the intensive care unit at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.

Dunedin's Hillside Engineering Workshops will be closed if they are not sold, a KiwiRail report states, prompting a visit to the facility by Labour leader David Shearer.

A report suggesting David Bain should be compensated for wrongful imprisonment gives encouragement to Otago man Rex Haig, who had his murder conviction quashed in 2006 after serving 10 years in jail.

St Paul's Cathedral will no longer be without an image of its namesake when an intricate locally designed and made stained-glass work is installed inside the Octagon building.

Waking at 4am to eat a steak is a highlight of Ben Wolffenbuttel's birthday present to himself.

School bells failed to deter pupils from joining a 200-strong queue outside the renovated Glassons store in central Dunedin yesterday, when $50 vouchers were given to the first 100 customers through the doors at 9am.

Thousands of people are expected to congregate in a closed-off lower Octagon for the All Blacks and Springboks test in Dunedin next Saturday.

A tourism operator accreditation programme is being launched in Dunedin ahead of the city's cruise season, which is set to comprise 90 ship visits between October 14 and April 5 next year.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull had his face painted blue yesterday to raise awareness about prostate cancer.

Fashion writer Amy Parsons-King and her daughters are thriving in their St Clair setting, two years after fearing for their lives during the first major Christchurch earthquake.

Former All Black and current Highlanders scrum coach Kees Meeuws spent Father's Day digging holes at the bottom of a gully yesterday, and enjoyed every minute.

Debate about how and what New Zealanders should eat was part of a long history of attempts to control the nation's food intake, the New Zealand Sceptics Conference heard yesterday.

Kiringaua Cassidy (8) gives it his all on stage in Dunedin yesterday, a week after leaving hospital following corrective knee and ankle surgery on both legs.

A Dunedin woman is steering clear of bagged lettuce after finding a dead bird inside a mixed salad pack she bought at the recently opened Countdown supermarket in Andersons Bay Rd.