John Gibb

Several concerns surfaced at a Dunedin public meeting yesterday, held to canvass opinion on the legal system tasked with dividing property fairly when relationships end.

Two more of Dunedin's heritage collections have gained Unesco recognition.

Pam Moyle expected her job at Arthur Barnett’s to last only a month, but 39 years flew past, and generations of pupils were fitted with school uniforms, before she finally retired on Thursday.

The Moller Park Memorial Arch at Ravensbourne was demolished yesterday. A new memorial has been established near the Ravensbourne Boating Club.

New Zealand avoided the big backlash that resulted in the Trump presidency, but our last election did spark significant, if "milder", political change.

Apricots in a Cromwell orchard have been picked in November for the first time in its 103-year history.

Otago Polytechnic graduate and former Dunedin mayoral candidate Joshua Perry plans to set up a dating internet site, called Enabling Love.

New Zealand could become the first nation to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, but no country has yet made the "necessary changes".

Community discussions will continue in February after ''very constructive'' meetings last week on how Taieri flood and drainage systems performed during the July deluge.

The University of Otago is renaming City College the Caroline Freeman College, after the university's first female graduate, a ''strong, pioneering woman''.

Retired journalist Stephen Freed was ''delighted'' yesterday to see for the first time a Polar Medal awarded to his Antarctic-voyaging grandfather, the late Captain Gerald Doorly.

A national ''Disability Matters'' conference aims to make the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities an everyday reality in New Zealand.

The family of Dunedin man Rex Haig are unsure what will become of their attempt to mount another bid for compensation, after his death, aged 70, on Friday.

Two  St John paramedics (in foreground) help an injured  rider (largely obscured) after an accident during a motocross  event in  Berwick Forest yesterday.

Yesterday's nationwide mobile phone test of a new emergency alert system was "a bit hit and miss" in Dunedin and Otago, but was  still valuable, Civil Defence says.

This evening's mobile phone test of a new national emergency alert system was ''a bit hit and miss'' in Dunedin and Otago but the system would ''get better'' and was a valuable new approach.

A thousand Dunedin primary school pupils pitched in yesterday to support a "Stock the Bus" initiative, providing food and toys for 200 city families in need this Christmas.