New Zealand's new alcohol legislation will be put under close scrutiny in a four-year research project by University of Otago researchers.
Dunedin woman Enid Ford (94) is determined to remain in her own home and receiving Meals on Wheels helps her to do it.
In the past year, 785 Dunedin families and individuals have been able to get on top of their power bills with support from the Dunedin City Council Consumer Electricity Fund.
Sawyers Bay School principal Gareth Swete is frustrated by a lack of progress on solving safety concerns at the school gate.
Dunedin community organisations must find ways to shift to a more professional footing to ensure future sustainability and secure ongoing government contracts.
''Walking the journey'' with people as they become debt-free is the focus of a Dunedin debt-counselling service.
The flurry of fundraising activity continues as the Friends of the Globe Theatre inch towards their goal of raising $500,000 for repairs to the historic Dunedin theatre.
Our playgrounds are smoke-free - but not everyone is getting the message.
Ambitious plans to establish a Dunedin arts hub in the Octagon Athenaeum building have been put on hold for the immediate future, as work continues on the historic building.
For Dunedin man Grahame Fox, and dozens of fellow patients across the southern region, the work of the Dunedin Hospital Dialysis Unit is literally life-saving.
Cycle and pedestrian routes through the southern city are opening up and work on Package 1 of the South Dunedin cycleway-walkway is due to be completed at the end of this month.
There has been a groundswell of community support in Port Chalmers for the lower speed limit in George St to be made permanent.
Life in Dunedin has been synonymous with a life in music for Glennie Jamieson (80), who recently stepped down as a member of City Choir Dunedin after 51 years.
A newly formed trust has big plans for the Mayfair Theatre, in South Dunedin, as the theatre celebrates its centennial year.
The Southern District Health Board has been the focus of close attention this week, with concerns expressed across the health sector about the population-based funding model, staffing levels,...
New Zealand faces a ''tsunami of knee replacements'' in the coming years, placing even more pressure on health services, a Dunedin academic says.
A Dunedin cyclist and Sawyers Bay resident has highlighted the daily dangers of commuting by bicycle on busy State Highway 88 and has called on truck drivers to take more care.
Expect to see many more young faces on public buses this year, with university and polytechnic students being urged to take part in a new transport scheme.
Danish business student Nick Nissen (23) has travelled halfway around the world to be part of the the Dunedin Fringe Festival organising team.
Searching through hundreds of vinyl LPs and CDs for ''discs to spin'' during today's Regent Theatre Anything But Books Sale has been a trip down memory lane for Darryl Baser.