Timothy Brown

Labour's plan to boost apprentice numbers has ticked the right boxes for workers and employers, the Otago Chamber of Commerce says.

On August 7, 1914, New Zealand's excited restlessness gave way to imperial duty as the British Empire accepted an offer of troops for the war effort. Thousands pressed to enlist for duty and among them was John Quinn Adamson - Otago's first volunteer. Timothy Brown reports.

The Otago Chamber of Commerce opposes residential development of a historic Dunedin building - arguing the proposal has shades of the costly and largely aborted harbourside rezoning.

An ''almighty crack'' followed by what sounded like a car crash alerted Richard Jackson to a fallen power pole in North Dunedin.

Wet and wild action drew dozens to Lake Waihola earlier this month.

The Dunedin City Council is discouraging animal trapping on public land after the recent discovery of about 20 leg-hold traps in the Dunedin Town Belt.

Friends have paid tribute to a ''beautiful soul'' after the 19-year-old tourist who fell from a Queenstown hotel balcony died on Saturday night.

A Dunedin company has been ordered to pay almost $9000 to a man it was found to have dismissed without justification.

Adi Burgess is relishing her time in the Taieri.

Thirty jobs could be created by the sale of Southern Cross Forest Products' Milton-based assets.

It is only a matter of time until someone is killed at the intersection of Blackhead Rd and Emerson St, a resident of the area says.

The naming in Australia this week of a high-profile Otago man whose identity was suppressed in the Dunedin District Court earlier this year - when he was discharged without conviction on an indecency charge - raises questions about the effectiveness of such court orders in the internet age. Timothy Brown reports.

Martin Phillipps is ditching Dunedin's nights of chill blue and heading to the sunshine of Europe.

Within 12 months, a project which has taken almost four decades will be complete, its proponents say.