Brenda Harwood

Summer gardens across the Taieri will be harvested for their best blooms in preparation for the Outram Summer Flower Show, coming up next week.

The dedicated Dunedin Summer Shakespeare team is back for another silly season of hi-jinks in a production of The Comedy of Errors.

The Dunedin Arts Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a special offering of theatre, dance, circus, cabaret, music, and visual arts, from March 26 to April 6.

It is the end of an era at Dunedin Botanic Garden, as manager Alan Matchett retires from his role after a 43-year career.

The cool blues that dominate a blanket crocheted by Dunedin woman Megan Thomas are a fascinating visual representation of the city’s temperatures throughout 2024.

A popular annual community pot-luck dinner returns next week, giving local families the chance to gather and celebrate peace and harmony.

Excitement is high among the St Clair School community as work begins on amalgamating a section of the former Forbury Park raceway into the school grounds.

Taking care of the Dunedin Town Belt has been a vital part of life for Town Belt Kaitiaki student leadership team co-chair Simon Macknight, 18, who has been part of the programme since it began.

Dunedin’s popular Town Belt Kaitiaki (TBK) education and conservation programme has gone into recess after failing to access enough funding to continue in its current form.

Dunedin’s inaugural Chinese Cultural Festival will celebrate the Year of the Snake in style — with two weeks of events, performances, tours, celebration dinners and more.

The Waitati Music Festival returns this weekend for the 11th annual celebration of alternative music, the arts and community.

The thousands of costumes and props held in the wardrobe at Mosgiel’s Fire Station Theatre are a popular resource for both theatre productions and the community, and are in need of care and...

In her first attempt at growing hollyhocks in her garden, Green Island resident Judy Bremner has been amazed by the results.

Dunedin’s abysmal summer weather so far is proving a challenge for lily growers in the city, blooms slow to open and the dreaded botrytis fungus affecting many plants.

The Star chief reporter Brenda Harwood shares the stories behind her favourite photos of the past year.

Dunedin’s Warrington Beach and Baldwin St received some very special visitors last week, as fans of the Norwegian fjord horse took part in a Viking-themed photo shoot designed to raise awareness of...

After 18 years at the heart of day-to-day life at Abbeyfield Dunedin, dedicated housekeeper Robyn Thomson is hanging up her apron.

Love, loss and life in hospitals during the 1980s are explored in the debut novel of Dunedin doctor and author Mira Harrison, about a junior doctor struggling through his first year.

After decades at the heart of the Green Island community, retired Green Island School principal Steve Hayward has stepped down as chairman of the Greater Green Island Community Network (GGICN).