Shawn McAvinue

A Middlemarch grazing block posed a big challenge for contestants at a regional ploughing competition on Sunday.

Nearly $250,000 is set to be spent developing public reserves in Mosgiel subdivisions and the community has expressed its wishes for the space.

A hard-working woman shared a bottle of sherry in Mosgiel yesterday to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Tie-dye dresses, tarot cards, kaleidoscopes and henna tattoos - it must be a travelling gypsy fair.

The steam locomotive Ab 608 Passchendaele starts a return trip between Dunedin Railway Station and Sawyers Bay yesterday.

The best ploughmen and ploughwomen in Otago and Southland were unearthed in Middlemarch yesterday.

What a diamond geezer!

A Dunedin art studio is ''livening up'' vacant shop windows in the city.

A much-loved Dunedin vegetarian restaurant is set to close and leave a long-running poetry collective homeless.

A Mosgiel student is seeking answers after discovering his beekeeping course collapsed when a national agricultural provider was ordered to repay $6 million to the Government.

An organisation founded by a Dunedin doctor to help save the lives of the poor is seeking volunteers.

A cyber safety consultant is in Dunedin to talk with pupils, teachers and parents about how to use social media safely and responsibly.

Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Dunedin house this morning.

Labour has attacked TVNZ plans to cut two Dunedin-based staff, saying it would have an immediate negative impact on coverage for the South.

The Dunedin panelbeaters gutted by fire in June will not rise from the ashes, after it lost an agency contract and insurance company accreditation.

A Dunedin Railways carriage was used for an ''unauthorised party'' yesterday and a reveller apparently tried to start a fire inside.

A 19th-century Dunedin building was demolished yesterday to make way for student accommodation.

A global clothing brand inspired by the Otago landscape is set to open a flagship store in Dunedin.

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall's visit to Mosgiel next month has ''excited'' the community.