Shawn McAvinue

A teenage foster child might keep their bedroom just as messy as a biological child, but the rewards are equally satisfying as well, foster mother Caroline Hellyer says.

Her caring nature has resulted in Dunedin woman Helen Trainor winning the Otago Daily Times ''Why my Mum is the best!'' Mother's Day competition.

A sensitive Middlemarch colt who sold for $3000 is putting silverware on his rider's mantelpiece and is now worth more than $1 million.

Dunedin budgeting service providers say they will apply for the new pool of Government funds announced yesterday.

The Otago SPCA says the dumping of nine kittens and two cats near a swede stand between Milton and Waihola yesterday was ''disgraceful'', coming just hours before the Government announced a Bill to create enforceable regulations covering the treatment of farm and domestic animals.

A Dunedin mother wept in the Octagon yesterday while signing a petition for an immediate ban of synthetic cannabis.

Clothing shop Wolfenden & Russell, which has been trading in South Dunedin for more than 100 years, is to close.

A long-serving rural firefighter died when the four-wheel drive vehicle he was driving rolled south of Oamaru.

The war on waterfowl was waged in a mix of weather at the weekend.

An Australian woman who has taken nearly three years to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle has arrived in Mosgiel to house-sit for a month.