Timothy Brown

The crowd was as thick as thieves in the Octagon on Saturday.

Dunedin and Otago's once dominant Presbyterian tradition is slipping further into the past.

This year is the make or break season for trials rider Blake Fox.

Dunedin City Council may have to reassess the servicing of toilets and rubbish bins at Ocean View as the site has proven popular with freedom campers, Saddle Hill Community Board chairman Scott Weatherall says.

From top of the world to top of the gaming world, Dean Hall has done it all.

Hundreds paid a colourful and fun tribute to St Leonards children Bradley and Ellen Livingstone yesterday.

Heads were turning for the models on show in St Clair yesterday.

While no injuries involved rogue reindeer or fur-trimmed red-suited men catching fire were reported in Otago, the excitement of the Christmas holiday period still got the better of some people.

As far as first impressions go, things could not have been more amicable between opera singer Jud Arthur and Cezanne.

Ten district and city councils have taken steps to enforce further controls on retailers of psychoactive substances.

Signed, sealed, delivered but not theirs.

There is increased demand for student placements at the Dunedin Botanic Garden, following last year's Global Botanic Garden Congress.

It served in Dunedin's coastal defence for more than 30 years, fired 488 rounds and, yesterday, the Armstrong disappearing gun at Taiaroa Head was formally awarded the 91st Engineering Heritage Award.

A colourful funeral service to celebrate the lives of Bradley and Ellen Livingstone will be held in St Leonards today.

Like father, like son. Colin Winter will roll out of the Octagon behind the wheel of his 1900 Wolseley in the 60th Dunedin to Brighton Veteran Car Rally - the same car his father, Mervyn, drove in the first rally in 1955.

About 1% of protection order breaches resulted in the offender being discharged without conviction, but even that is too high, a senior academic says.

Taieri cricketer Jack Hunter is preparing to roll his arm over on the unforgiving tracks of the Arabian Peninsula.