If you are sick of city life take a 20km drive down Otago Peninsula from Dunedin to Portobello to find the perfect escape. Shawn McAvinue visits Portobello Village Tourist Park.
Torrential rain and strong winds closed major tourist route the Haast Pass for much of yesterday.
''Please, sir, I want some more,'' was Oliver Twist's famous request.
Carisbrook's demise was the end of an era for Otago. Shawn McAvinue tracks down those lucky enough to secure a memento of the stadium before it was demolished.
Knowing what to do with unwanted paint in Dunedin will become clearer after a solid waste bylaw review.
Rain kept the punters and horses away from the Boxing Day races at Wingatui yesterday.
The Otago Regional Council is to investigate erosion on the Taieri River after concerns were raised by the Strath Taieri Community Board.
Nothing, zero, zilch, the big doughnut - that's the compensation a South Dunedin businessman got when he had to stop trading so his landlord could demolish the building he leased.
SPCA Otago wants whoever drugged more than 100 birds in Mosgiel to admit to the cold and inhumane act.
An early morning fireworks battle, broken glass and an exploded television have infuriated some North Dunedin residents.
Ngai Tahu Property could help finance a major overhaul of Dunedin Hospital - expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars - as part of the tribe's investment drive in the city, it has been suggested.
Farm worker Yuet Rappard should not have been fined for telling a foreign student to remove her burqa, Otago University religious freedom professor Rex Ahdar says.
The blanket ticketing of parked cars in a ''quiet and skinny'' suburban street by Dunedin City Council yesterday was ''disgusting,'' Lookout Point resident Pat Reid says.
Jumping off the new wharf at the Burkes St Leonards Boating Club in Dunedin are (from nearest to camera) Jake Palmer (7), George Campbell (8) and Sophie Palmer (11) as Reuben Campbell (12) contemplates his leap.
A newly relocated and renovated 99-year-old East Taieri villa has been shown off to its previous owners.
Dunedin provides a better lifestyle than Kazakstan, even though life in the central Asian country is nothing like the Borat movie portrayal, student Alevtina Redden says.
A $30 million government initiative will make about 20 Dunedin state houses with driveways for children's play.
A Dunedin woman has been laid to rest in the new natural burial site in Waldronville, despite it not being officially open.
A neutering caravan is in Dunedin for the first time on the last stop of a national tour.
Babies are suffocating and need their own safe sleeping space, University of Auckland School of Population health programme manager Keith Gell says.
