Southern District Health Board staff in Southland and Otago pitched ideas to an executive judging panel at Dunedin Hospital yesterday for a share of $25,000 cash to turn their dream of improving health services in the district to a reality.
Ready, teddy, go. The University Book Shop opened the Children's Room in its Dunedin shop with the book launch of The Teddy Bear's Promise.
Dunedin trolley racers Team Zoom Car Wash set a record time at the Auckland Domain last weekend and cleaned up the $10,000 top prize.
The ''affordable'' tickets prices for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 pool matches will have University Oval in Dunedin at capacity, says Mayor Dave Cull.
Retiring to Mosgiel made perfect sense to former Palmerston sheep and beef farmers Jack and Betty Popham, and a house in Goodall St has proved ideal for the pair.
The sirens for the Mosgiel Community Food Bank annual Christmas food bank drive will sound again next month, and organisers are hopeful of the same generosity shown by the community last year.
A Mosgiel toolmaker and manufacturer is breaking the mould by making the mould.
A broken suspension arm on a V8 VK Holden Commodore broke the heart of a Dunedin driver.
Pupils entering the school hall for their first exam in Dunedin at Bayfield High School yesterday walked past a list of prohibited examination items - no notes, books, iPods or electronic translators.
More than 220 children got damp and dirty at the Portobello Paddock Pursuit yesterday.
Clydesdales and a Rolls-Royce coupe displayed different types of horsepower yesterday in a parade to encourage Dunedin road users to be considerate.
Furniture and rubbish fires in ''infamous'' North Dunedin streets kept fire crews and police busy at the weekend.
A fire caused significant damage to a house in Opoho, Dunedin, yesterday.
Assaults on and threats to Work and Income New Zealand (Winz) staff in 2011 and 2012 were more prevalent in the Otago region than Southland but non-existent in Central Otago and South Canterbury during that time.
The celebrations of Miller Studios' centenary started with a cocktail function at the firm's headquarters in Anzac Ave last night.
A Dunedin woman who says she was choked while pregnant is fundraising for a mobility van for her severely disabled daughter.
Laying a stormwater pipeline on the State Highway 1-Caversham Highway Improvements project in Dunedin yesterday are Downer machine operator Chris Gray (left) and drainage foreman Scott Tierney.
Nine-year-old Amelia Steele, of Kyeburn, meets SPCA Otago resident dog Archie, in Dunedin yesterday.
A Dunedin teen is set to be the youngest driver and only female to race in the Cromwell finale of an endurance series this weekend - at speeds of up to 230kmh.
The Department of Conservation's move to set up a group to find Otago's first marine reserves within two years is ''extremely concerning'', Otago Rock Lobster Industry Association executive officer Simon Gilmour says.
