Concerned about the number of Chinese people becoming Dunedin residents without knowing anything about their new home, Kevin Zhang has begun showing them what the Southern city has to offer.
The Department of Conservation is pleading with Dunedin dog owners to keep their dogs under control when exercising in wildlife areas, following the death of a shag in St Clair yesterday.
An announcement is expected this week on funding for the proposed upgrade of Carisbrook School - nearly three and a-half months after the building work was supposed to have been completed.
Shania Hutton may be absent from school, but she has certainly not been forgotten by her St Clair School classmates.
It's not unusual to hear beatboxing or rap music spilling down the corridors from Tom McFadden's work space in the division of sciences at the University of Otago.
As the bagpipes played Going Home, the ashes of Norman MacLeod were scattered across a long-lasting monument he built with his own hands.
The Royal Albatross Centre at Taiaroa Head is to close to the public for two months during the winter while the facility is refurbished.
Logan Park High School hopes to retain its ASB Dunedin Stage Challenge title next week with a show which follows a group of children who are pressured into adult relationships before their time.
Tough economic times are causing a rise in the number of unfair dismissal cases being brought to Otago lawyers for mediation representation, despite the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) recording a decline.
China is now home to about 1.3 billion people, and only a fraction of them have ever heard a brass band.
Questions have been raised about a claim by Sotheby's Auction House in London that it is about to auction what is believed to be the first golf clubs made in New Zealand.
Education Minister Hekia Parata's claim that teachers and principals are the only people who can raise achievement levels in New Zealand schools, is a "thinly disguised veil" of her intent to introduce performance pay for teachers, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago College of Education says.
She's thin, 2.3m tall, fiery and quick to fly off the mark.
A former Kavanagh College pupil was among the country's top 40 pupils who received awards at the 2011 New Zealand Qualifications Authority Top Scholarship Awards ceremony at Government House in Wellington yesterday.
Almost a decade after being struck down and severely injured by a vehicle in North Dunedin while walking home, Drew McLean is planning to run the New York Marathon.
A 74-year-old man was assaulted and knocked unconscious in a "disgusting" case of road rage in Dunedin.
Nearly one in 10 Otago school pupils are estimated to be absent from school each week, a 2011 Ministry of Education survey reveals.
KiwiRail is seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Workshops.
Despite KiwiRail seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Engineering, the city's business community and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union are confident Hillside can survive.
For some people, living in rural areas of New Zealand means being less connected to civilisation and the information superhighway.
