John Lewis

It doesn't matter what they tell you, nothing can prepare you for eating a chilli registering about 2 million on the Scoville Heat Unit (shu) scale.

The ‘‘third-world'' roading conditions being created by Dunedin City Council contractors while renewing the water mains in Kaikorai is leaving some residents angry and impatient for it to be finished.

It is a kind of schadenfreude. I have always found it amusing when people scare the living daylights out of each other.

A speech laying out the value of not being a bystander to racism and discrimination has won a Logan Park High School pupil the Otago Race Unity Speech Competition.

I only have one issue.

The wheels are turning on a bid to retrieve a 1940s Ford ‘‘Jailbar'' fire engine from a North Island farmer's shed and have it returned to Waitati, where it was once the area's first dedicated fire appliance.

The Dunthat Motel on King Edward St is now ‘‘been that'', following its demolition yesterday.

Be prepared.

If you live in South Dunedin, these are some of the people in your neighbourhood.

At last, gig-speed internet is connected in Ali Copeman's office, and the Dunedin businesswoman says her work can begin.

As a youngster, Jason Kerrison was hopelessly devoted to the music of Grease.

New research has begun at the University of Otago that aims to reduce the number of open-water drownings in New Zealand.

Two bus windows were smashed in Port Chalmers yesterday morning.

A 30-year-old man has been given a pre-charge warning from police after he allegedly assaulted a Dunedin City Council parking warden in central Dunedin yesterday.

Up to 11 people die every week from suicide in New Zealand.

An initiative is under way to keep the art of letter writing alive by bringing it to a new generation through the gift of thousands of free postcards and stamps to school-aged children.

When teenage girls get together, conversations often start with: "Oh my God, I love your hair''.

The Dunedin City Council has denied it has ticketed a Dunedin resident for parking his vehicle over his own driveway.

Eight brass bands will put the Regent Theatre's newly installed sound shell to the test this weekend when they compete in the 2016 Otago Southland Festival of Brass.