Shawn McAvinue

Jake licks his lips before accepting a treat at the SPCA in Torridon St, Opoho, to mark SPCA Cupcake Day yesterday.

A series of unexpected delays has stalled the reopening of a section of the Esplanade at St Clair.

Contractors work to  repair a section of the Dunedin’s Northern Motorway near Waitati.

The Dunedin City Council is offering $13,000 for artists to create  art projects designed to bring the natural world into vacant and public spaces in the city.

A new fund to "build the skills and abilities of arts, culture and creative organisations in Dunedin" has been launched.

Chubby albatross chicks on Otago Peninsula have been put on a weight-loss programme as they prepare to fledge.

Dunedin Labour MPs believe their party's rise in poll results is a sign the election is ''ramping up'' but both politicians are vowing to continue to work for every vote.

A starved dog rescued by a Dunedin family has been given the name of a god and a diet of organic beef.

Go Bus has admitted ''an error in judgement'' allowing a driver to return to work the day after a bus and a youth ended up in a ditch in Karitane.

New Zealand International Film Festival Dunedin host Josh Thomas and publicist Hannah Molloy roll out the red carpet at the Regent Theatre for the opening gala in the Octagon last night.

The Government needs to give more than the $1.5 million it has pledged to ensure shop owners are protected from robbery, a Dunedin shop owner says.

The "freakish'' price of watermelons in Dunedin is causing some customers to get the pip.

Indian "scarfies'' living in Dunedin have been given scholarships to "strengthen ties'' between two countries.

A woman has driven into a wall at "high speed'' in Port Chalmers this morning.