Shawn McAvinue

Kavanagh College economics and accounting teacher Jill Armstrong (above) relaxes with her fabric dolls in Dunedin yesterday.

The Regent Theatre has punched above its weight to win the national medium venue of the year award.

Surviving a shark attack inspired a Dunedin woman to become New Zealand's first forensic anthropologist.

Dunedin is celebrating its new cultural status as a Unesco Creative City of Literature. Shawn McAvinue reports on what this could mean for the city.

A fire crew on the ground and a helicopter in the air yesterday dampened six ‘‘hot spots'' after a scrub fire at Woodside, near Outram. 

A mission to drive an electric car the length of New Zealand and back is set to reach the halfway mark today.

"Claus-trophobia" is the fear of Father Christmas, KidsCan Santa Run Dunedin organiser Sarah Redfearn says.

The more than 10,000 tickets sold to Arts Festival Dunedin this year put attendance rates ''on a par'' with past festivals with similar calibre artists, festival director Nicholas McBryde says.

That she was able to adopt a puppy with a highly contagious and lethal disease from the Dunedin City Council has disgusted the pup's new owner and left her with an expensive vet bill.

Internet service stopped for some customers in the South when a underground fibre cable was cut in Rakaia this morning.

The ''fuse has been lit'' to build a $15 million Taieri Aquatic Facility at Memorial Park in Mosgiel, the chairman of the trust behind it says.

Three injured hunters are recovering in Southland Hospital after the plane they were in flipped following an aborted take off in Western Southland this afternoon.

Champagne corks popped to celebrate the opening of a new Plunket premises in South Dunedin last night.

Dunedin embroiderers have stitched their way into New Zealand history.

Dunedin police breath-test motorists under the Pine Hill overbridge in George St yesterday.

A neighbour is angry a 19th-century mansion built by a Speight's Brewery founder in Dunedin could be demolished to make room for a car park.

Tradesmen wore ties when Ron St Clair-Newman began a cabinetmaking apprenticeship 50 years ago.

A man broke down and cried in Dunedin yesterday while talking about a new proposed road and subdivision in Mosgiel.

Catching a bus is less fuss with the new bus-tracking service developed by a Dunedin company.