Pitcairn Scout Group members (clockwise from front left) Austen Dustow (9), Josiah Trounson (10), Fletcher Moore (10), Christopher Caulton (8) and Aidan Hurd-Vial (9) in Dunedin yesterday with presents for Presbyterian Support Otago Family Works.
Tears of joy and a sign celebrating the safe return of Snowball and Mischief greeted Mosgiel kindergarten pupils yesterday.
A Dunedin mural has caused some onlookers to reminisce and another to recoil in apprehension.
Beach Education programme head instructor Zoe Lenagh-Glue taught surf and sun safety to year 3 and 4 Silverstream School pupils earlier this month.
The insults have stopped and the suspended Anglican Family Care staff returned to work yesterday and provided social services in Otago, the union secretary says.
A formerly untidy part of Fairfield looks wonderful, following a beautification project.
The squeal from fire engine, police car and ambulance sirens signalled another screamer for the Mosgiel Community Food Bank drive.
The Fortune Theatre play Peninsula won production of the year at the Dunedin Theatre Awards last night.
Christmas spending in Otago has soared more than 7% during the first 14 days of December, compared with the corresponding period last year.
The striking of regular chimes around Port Chalmers from the restored Iona Church clock is again setting the pulse of the small harbour town community.
A Dunedin teenager who spent her childhood in and out of foster care does not consider herself a role model despite winning an award for achieving greatness.
A silver Toyota Altezza rolled off Hawthorne Ave, near Lonsdale St, and travelled down a bank in Mornington yesterday.
The 2014 financial ledger of Arts Festival Dunedin has ''a modest surplus'' and the festival will return in 2016 with a line-up designed to attract a broader audience.
For the first time since he began growing Christmas trees, John Munro sold out this week.
A Dunedin art gallery is raising bus money.
Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull leads Grant's Braes School pupils on a convoy yesterday after he officially opened a new 125m scooter track at the school.
Neighbours of an empty Mosgiel section are delighted an apartment block not a McDonald's restaurant is proposed for Hartstonge St.
Cash registers are ringing loudly across Otago - with shoppers last week spending at least $3.8 million more than in the corresponding week last year.
Any cruise passengers with norovirus when Dawn Princess docked in Port Chalmers would not have come into contact with the public, a Princess Cruises spokesman said yesterday.
Olveston Historic Home guide Kevin Flaherty, in the Olveston library yesterday, reads a book of letters written by World War 1 soldier Dalbert Hallenstein.