Shawn McAvinue

The "cool idea" of an open wall refrigerator has won a student from Dunedin some cold cash at an international design award in Italy - and is impressing internet users.

Staff are 'devastated' after fire gutted the premises of printing business Colortronics in central Dunedin yesterday, destroying recently-installed new machinery.

A Dunedin school pupil has tasted sweet success in reaching the final of a national competition for his science project on honeybees.

Gumboots may be the footwear of choice at the "Party in the Puddle" at the Wingatui races today, organisers say.

A successful foster parent should never give up on a young person - or the cooking of Sunday roasts, a Dunedin foster child says.

The best skateboarders in Dunedin will get technical on the rooftop of Northland Mall in Christchurch today.

The final HortTalk of the year at the Dunedin Botanic Garden Centre yesterday had a sting in its tail.

Devoted youth workers are burning out, so a Dunedin student is flying to East Africa to research if the mental fatigue only manifests itself in the Western World.

The side of a woman's head is not the place you'd expect to find a walrus moustache, but a Dunedin woman now has a unique hairdo she hopes will raise a lot of money for men's health.

The green waste dumped and leaching into Dunedin's urban streams is "offensive" and endangering the brown trout, Fish and Game says.

A volunteer student army was on mess duty around the Otago Harbour basin in Dunedin yesterday.

A small pimple that festered with cellulitis cut a southern motorcycle tour short but the Australian tourists left Dunedin yesterday thankful for travel insurance and the advice to seek medical attention quickly.

The ParaFed Otago Panthers wheelchair basketballers lack players but not confidence.

It's the end of the road for an automotive superstar.

A North Otago player who booted his way to a kicking competition's top prize - watching the All Blacks at Twickenham - has found himself offside with rugby officials.

Cyclists raising awareness of cancer in Pacific Island and Maori men thanked God with song in Dunedin last night - even after He made the trip harrowing.