A healthy lifestyle Stroke Foundation seminar in Dunedin yesterday coincided with the release of a ground-breaking study that shows a 25% global increase in the number of stroke cases among people aged 20 to 64 in the past two decades.
The Winery Tour will bypass Dunedin next year because Forsyth Barr Stadium is unavailable. promoter Campbell Smith says.
Dunedin police will randomly check ''young mums'' after changes to child restraint laws come into force next Friday.
A ''distinctive'' donation box was stolen from the Otago SPCA - the first to be taken from the front counter of the Otago animal welfare charity, executive officer Sophie McSkimming says.
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Month. Reporter Shawn McAvinue approached Abbotsford couple Julie and John Moyle to talk about their son Benjamin, who died in utero seven weeks ago, and the importance of grieving and remembering.
In the house at the end of the bitumen on Flower St in Fairfield, you will find the Tucker family.
The Coastal Classic Mountainbiking, Run and Walk at Taieri Mouth is set to hit double figures. Organiser Peter Street said all the profits from the 10th annual event would fund projects around Taieri Mouth.
Dunedin is fast becoming the ''onesie'' capital of New Zealand.
A Dunedin trolley car has exceeded the inner city speed limit and is set to go faster.
Two Dunedin School of Medicine students will soon be helping some of the poorest people in India.
Equity in Dunedin homes will be the ''collateral damage'' of the Government's mismanagement of the Auckland housing crisis, Labour Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says.
A camera system worth nearly $1 million and capable of allowing a video referee to instantly rule on a forward pass or offside is being tested in Dunedin.
Emergency services attend the scene of an accident at the intersection of Andersons Bay Rd and State Highway 1, in Dunedin, yesterday.
Singing keeps you young at heart, Dunedin Star Singers life member Madelene Barkman says.
That 10 mobility scooter riders have been killed, and 19 seriously injured, in New Zealand in the past five years is ''frightening'' and such deaths and injuries need to stop, Dunedin City Council road safety adviser Deborah Palmer says.
A marquee village for Bledisloe Cup revellers will be erected when the lower Octagon is closed on Friday.
Electricity spot prices are "volatile" and the distribution costs across sparsely populated areas and ''difficult terrain'' in Otago and Southland pushes the retail price in many areas past the national average, Electricity Authority chief executive Carl Hansen says.
People climbing on the Moran Building in the Octagon are causing serious problems which the the building owner is working hard to circumvent, Cutlers commercial property manager Richard Thompson said yesterday.
The Pink Ribbon Street Appeal today and tomorrow aims to raise funds to support women withbreast cancer, boost awareness and fund research into targeted treatments. Reporter Shawn McAvinue talks to St Kilda woman Leanne Smith, who is facing her own struggle.
The Bledisloe Cup arrived in Dunedin yesterday and will be part of the silverware served up at a breakfast for 10 Otago Daily Times readers.
