Brenda Harwood

Greater collaboration with social agencies, new premises at street level and finding new ways to teach skills are all on the cards for Supergrans in Dunedin.

Patients at Otago Community Hospice who wish to record their life stories for posterity are being supported by the newly re-established Biography Services Team.

The results of a detailed study of the activity levels and transport habits of 1000 adolescents across rural Otago and Southland have been revealed.

Six months on from the demise of the Fortune Theatre, the voluntary group that has supported it since 1976 has wound up.

A popular project to connect artists and other creative groups with vacant inner-city spaces has been re-launched this month.

Helmets are almost off the hook when it comes to reasons why most Dunedin adolescents do not ride bikes to school, a study shows. But not entirely.

At 11.02am on November 11, a cacophony of joyful noise will break two minutes of silence across New Zealand, as communities mark 100 years since the end of World War 1.

Transforming a wreck of a building into a home for an orchestra has been a labour of love for Lloyd Williams and Cally McWha.

Hundreds of Dunedin people live each day with ‘‘the embarrassing, disabling shakes’’ — essential tremor.

At present continuing to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Dunedin Chinese Garden can truly claim to be ‘‘unique’’.

Dunedin adolescents are carrying an average of 5.6kg to and from school each day in their school bags.

Dunedin author and environmental advocate Neville Peat offers "a reality check and a call to action'' in his new book The Invading Sea.

He may come from "a long line of prop forwards'' and he used to get puffed pushing a pram, but Dunedin City councillor Aaron Hawkins is putting his body on the line for Lifeline.

Dunedin-based health provider and social agency Pacific Trust Otago has joined forces with local business people to launch a new social enterprise, Pacific Pods.